Literature

[Memory]

What are you guys all reading at the moment? Right now I am reading The Castle of Otranto, which I have almost finished. I think after I knock that out I am going to look to read one of the books in my large stack of books I have purchased and am yet to read.

I've finishes Dostoyevsky's White Nights and Bobek and will now start with Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray (because I feel exorbitantly gay)

[ThySonnet190]

I've finishes Dostoyevsky's White Nights and Bobek and will now start with Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray (because I feel exorbitantly gay)

Fun fun! I love Picture of Dorian Gray, I have read it like 3 times in my life! As for White Nights, I have not heard of it. Does it happen to be something Dostoyevsky wrote sometime in his early writing career kind of like The Double?

[Memory]

As for White Nights, I have not heard of it. Does it happen to be something Dostoyevsky wrote sometime in his early writing career kind of like The Double?

As far as I know, it's an early work, yeah. It's a short story.

[starbreaker]

So just to bring some names into the discussion that I am aware of, Genji Monogatari and Dom Casmurro comes to mind.

I've got the Penguin Classics edition of Genji Monogatari in paperback, but I haven't gotten far in reading it because I'm afraid to damage the book. The pages are so thin and the book feels too big to be sturdy. So I bought the Kindle edition for $5 a couple of days ago.

There's actually a website dedicated to the Tale of Genji; it also highlights the places mentioned in the novel.

[creaturefeature]

Currently my favorite books series is Vampire Hunter D.

Started reading since May and still have a lot to go through!

My favorite aspect of it are the beautiful ilustrations by the talented Yoshitaka Amana.
And it has one of the most uniqie settings for a post apocalyptic story.

The author went all the to mix up scifi, western and gothic horror.

I do warn it can get kinda dark.
But every book give you a different setting, therr are even momements where D allies with vampires and some of them even have sympathetic motives?

Also there a lot of themes of human preserverance and hope.

If you are more familiar with the movies i do recomenr checking this one out.

[appleAlc]

I’ve finally bit the bullet and started reading War and Peace. I’m having a lovely time with it so far, though I’m not far into by any means imaginable!
In terms of recent reads, I read Ethan Frome and A River Runs Through It lately for a uni course on novella writing and found them both to be beautiful pieces. I really think there are so many beautiful and effective…novellas? novelle? The Metamorphosis by Kafka and Le Fanu’s Carmilla both particularly come to mind.
I also ended up returning to one of my favourite novels (Their Eyes Were Watching God) since my last time really being active on here. I think everyone, certainly everyone from the Southeast U.S., should read it at some point. I’m aware that phonetically transcribed accents in dialogue can be a turn-off for a lot of people, but it’s genuinely such a gorgeously written, deeply impactful novel. I think I’ll find myself coming back to it later in my life. I certainly think I will once I’m a married woman.

[_ghost_]

I'm a university student studying the Spanish language, which means I spend a lot of time on Spanish and Latin American literature. My favorite things I've studied so far are the rural tragedies of Federico Garcia Lorca and the poetry of Delmira Agustini. A lot of older works I've only read excerpts of, but I eventually intend to actually read El cantar del mio Cid and La Celestina in their entirety, and of course reading Don Quijote de la Mancha in the original Spanish is somewhat of a bucket list item. I'm currently reading stories by Rosario Ferre, whose work I really enjoy, although it's sometimes a bit difficult for me to get through.

I'm also trying to make an effort to read more short stories, and I'm currently reading Edith Wharton's Tales of Men and Ghosts. Ethan Frome is the only thing I've read by her in the past, but I really like her prose. I'm also currently studying the Victorians in a different class; I love weird uses of religious imagery and complicated, bad relationship dynamics, so the poem "Goblin Market" by Christina Rosetti is probably going to be what I do my next written assignment on.