For the third day in a row I have failed to get into the Lima film festival. It is somewhat disappointing, but now I know: you have to study the program way ahead of time, and drop down on those tickets like a hawk the first hour they are available. I justified buying Jorge Bruce’s … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Jorge Bruce
I have at last read The Grass is Singing which is brilliant and impactante, epoch making for many reasons. Of all books mentioned in this post, this is the one most worth discussing. I will therefore discuss it least. I have also been reading The Poisonwood Bible, which is a good book although Kingsolver is … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Doris Lessing
And eighteenth century Franciscan writes: Ya que vino el día partí por dentro de una quebrada, y así fuimos hasta mediodía, y aquí, dejando la quebrada, entramos por entre dos cerros, y venimos a subir por aquel cerro de lajas de afilar que dije cuando fui a Angasmarca, cuando iba para Lima desde Guamachuco. Ya … More “Containing What Happened to Me During This Voyage, Until I Arrived at the City of Lima”
From Servetus: the 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike through the ones you read but do not remember well, and italicize the ones you have never heard of. Many are unread by me, and some are unknown to me. I am only interested in reading … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Top Unread Books
I normally do not read anything in the genre of self-help, but a friend told me that in her I Could Do Anything… Barbara Sher sounded a great deal like me. And indeed, her ideas fit with mine, but she knows more. I am getting a great deal out of reading at this book. I … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Barbara Sher
Of course I like the name Shahrzad very much and am considering adopting it myself. In Arabic class my name was Ouidad but Ouidad is now a hair salon in New York and I am not. Here is Shahrzad: “The record of the feminist movement worldwide shows that the struggle for liberation is multidimensional, with … More Shahrzad Mojab on “Muslim” Women and “Western” Feminists
Really I reread The Vortex for class, but it was a true pleasure. Now we will sing the first line: “Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugué mi corazón al azar y me lo ganó la Violencia.” * Familiarity begins at the airport where you identify your gate from far off because everyone … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: J. E. Rivera
“It’s a pity nation-making moves only through a single groove like a one-track brain that is obsessed with the one thing. It is not enough to be in power but to be power itself and there is no such thing except in the minds of people with religious notions. We are a devastated garden in … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Nation-Making Moves
1. I am still reading The Black Insider very slowly, and I have little new to report on that front except that I have added The House of Hunger, by the same author, to my list, as well as Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Times. I am also reading, strictly for pleasure, the criticism and historical documents … More On Reading for Pleasure and Writing What You Think
This is Reading for Pleasure Wednesday and I have little new to report since I am still reading The Black Insider, very slowly. Logic is an attitude. It freezes us forever in the icy tumult of all the cursed attitudes they stuffed into us. But even where thoughts have died, something ghostly lingers behind. An … More Dambudzo Marechera
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