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G Greene is a good Author, maybe overrated while alive. ➖ Liked England Made Me, The Man Within (about a supposed coward, the trial is remarkable), and above any other, A Burnt Out Case (about Ethics and Friendship). Which I dare to qualify as a Masterwork. ➖ The Power and the Glory, instead, didn't catch me. Though his days in Mexico were interesting times, and helped leading me to live for a while in this Beatiful Country. ➖ About the Quiet American, found the movie better than the book (it was slow paced0), something rare. ➖ Have to say The End of the Affair, bored me a lot, because the G Greene gone into Catholicism wasn't of my interest, at all. ➖Also found not good enough and boring, The Comedians, and Brighton Rock. Read The Human Factor, too, but can't remind what it dealt with, which may mean not good enough, for me. ➖ Still, A Burnt Out Case and his novella and screenwriting of The Third Man, made Greene an Author that has to be read. ➖ Also, Our Man in Havana is a smart and witty one, a funny and easy reading. ➖ So, a good writer, a must read even, and a Classic of our times. Though one that failed here and there. Think you can't expect no one (except rare Geniuses), never to fail, sometimes, in what they do. Nor should you expect highbrows not to work just to make a living, sometimes. ➖ For me, England Made Me was a touching one, there was some magic, some poetry in this fine book. Greene deals basically with Ethics and then Friendship, and this makes him a very interesting reading. ❤️🤗👍😔🙏😇B

i loved leaving the atocha station too!

those baker books look so nice together

Some years ago there was a libertarian radio talk show host in Detroit who would say Kokoro as a firing point for the audience. Then would add "the heart of a lion" to his statement. I wonder if he read the book since he practiced martial arts and was interested in Eastern philosophy.

thats a very pretty edition

Glory be! I got to spend breakfast listening to Neal talk about Kokoro!

I actually made a video about how I collect editions like the one you cut up: ruclips.net/video/-aAX4rAl9po/видео.htmlsi=SFB2KiKzvu1-HO8p Cool video by the way and cool rebinding!

What were your favourite books that you read in the last couple of years?

Another Soseki reader! I found Kokoro six years ago. Since then, off and on, I have been consuming Soseki like an addict. I have inhaled The Gate and The Grass Pillow, with Sanshiro just ahead. He knew how to make ordinary life seem significant on a spiritual level. Also, will be wolfing down Bad Boy and Roughneck, both alledged to be Thompson's autobiographies. When done, I will have read, I reckon, ten Thompson books. Pop. 1280 is his greatest, but I have to include The Killer Inside Me and The Grifters in a best list.

The title piece of The White Album is a top five of her's for me. It had an impact on some of the pieces I wrote for a creative nonfiction workshop class a few years ago. It wasn't assigned or anything, but I read it around that time, or maybe the semester before. But my #1 favorite Didion book is Where I Was From. I don't know if that's the place to start (I never understand that question: I don't think everyone should start at the same place when embarking on a writer's oeuvre. I have never read Soseki. I had a regular customer at my bookstore heavily recommend Soseki to me and I have a good feeling I would like Soseki, and your passion for Kokero is singularly persuasive on it own. Would you say Paul Muldoon is your favorite poet? You talk about him often. I bet it's either Muldoon or Ashbery.

In the Didion collection is a short, sympathetic novel about a young woman who moves to Hollywood to become a starlet, only to discover that her talent and prettiness are enough to allow her to marry a director but not a lot more. The title is Play It as It Lays, and there is an excellent movie version of it that cultivates the brutal Modernism that makes it work. Of course for most of us the crisis she reaches is out of touch, which means Didion expects us to break free of our comfort zones and feel for this poor young thing.

Thank you for introducing me to Greenwell! I read cleanness because of this video and it was an amazing book

It was nice to see books that I am not seeing tons of other people talk about!

That copy of "Youth and the Bright Medusa" is brilliant. Never heard of it previous to this video. Since you seemingly mention poetry quite a bit and asked for suggestions, mine is anything by the 20th century poet Robinson Jeffers.

Your passion for your books has always amazed me. It is infectious and highly engaging. Especially with your discussions of Ashbery. I hadn't heard of him prior to watching your videos as I'm not much of a poetry reader. For months I've been looking for a copy of his works and realized just how hard it can be to find them. Today I found a copy of Houseboat Days at Myopic Books here in Chicago for $9. I'm excited to read it in the new year. Thank you for the introduction to his work.

Recently finished play it as it lays and gotta see the movie. Read drive your plow which led me onto the books of Jacob which l found superb. Gonna check out Jim Thompson - Merry Christmas.

I enjoyed this! Your suggestion on the thought flow in writing was so interesting.

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Damn some serious snow there, Leafy. Very Christmasy looking. Been very intrigued by White Out for a couple years, good to hear you thought highly of it. I’ll have to move it up the to-buy list (in my head). I have to say watching this gave me the itch again to try making a video myself…. Hmmm

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Great book. I have the Black Sparrow Press edition.

Happy belated birthday! Great to have a video from you. I had to google Vince Guaraldi - I never thought about who wrote the Peanuts music, wonderful. You also sent me back to Schuyler, that's a gorgeous edition you picked up. Warm regards to you, I so enjoy your videos.

That Library of America edition of Didion is great. I highly recommend picking up the box set that has all her collected works. Those editions are very well made and will last a lifetime.

As a veteran of eight Thompson novels, I encourage the mass consumption of his fiction! And the Black Lizard editions you show were the ones I first read Thompson, Charles Williford, and David Goodis in. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.

What a day when we get a PaperBird and a Leafy Concern video in the same day

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the burton and basho are essential acquisitions!

When you get to the famous cake scene in Remembrance of Things Past it becomes clear that Marcel will never be one of them, the Guermantes, because they live in a separate world of which he has had a glimpse but nothing more.

you and paperbird uploaded at the exact same time! christmas came early

Great book

just got this book upon your recommendation, not without much hesitation, as, to me, everything that needs to be known is in the poems (as he himself once said in an interview) but I’m enjoying it so far

genuinely one of my favorite Nabokov novels

I wrote a comment re: Larkin but now I don’t see it google rejected it

Have you read Helene Hanff ‘s “84 Charing Cross Road “ ? A short book but powerful for book lovers. I just got a collection of short stories by Ann Petry and wow ! Now I want to get her novels, too .

Hey, thanks for this. Your channel is beautiful.

Great collection!

DOWNTOWN BOOKS IS SO GOOD!!!! I went there for the first time a couple months ago and was floored!

Great video

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IIRC Jill was Larkin's first novel. He described it as juvenile, written during uni. At the time I read it in the early 1980s it was difficult to understand such a categorization tho later in life it become more clear. A lot of us need to get that girl onto paper to be able to move forward. His second novel, A Girl in Winter, was described as the sub-genre of Post War Working Women, which also was difficult to grasp. However, having read it I have a better picture of the world Orwell wrote about in 1984. Wendy Cope is marvellous, and choose any with "The Orange". Be aware though with her work a deep background in contemporary poetry completes the experience, but even without that there a sharp portraits of the everyday events of normal people that bestow poignancy to our ordinary lives. Enjoy! Edit: 'juvenile' for 'juvenal'

I don't know that I want to read a novel by Robert Creeley. Your use of "morbid fascination" is fitting indeed. Larkin's novel I am more likely to read; Larkin loved novels, so I think I trust that more. Larkin loved Barbara Pym, so that's good taste. Whether he can channel that love for the novel form into the writing of one, I do not know. I still don't know I would spend my time on it. I myself have been mildly curious about Hilda Doolittle's novel, but I love her poetry too much to risk an unfortunate failed attempt at a novel to tarnish my image of her as a near-perfect poet. Creeley is alright as a poet and so reading a bad novel by him wouldn't ruin anything for me, but I love Hilda Doolittle. There are some writers who can do both poetry and novels masterfully like Sylvia Plath, but such talent is exceedingly rare.

Good review. I don't read many books but just finished this one. It ruined my night lol.

I know we've talked about this before, but I also admire Annie Ernaux's writing. I did not know you have attention problems. If you prefer shorter works of literature, I've got lots of recommendations. For now, just one: Tove Ditlevsen has a similar openness and confessional approach in her prose to Ernaux, and Ditlevsen's books are all pretty short. I think the whole Copenhagen trilogy is less than three hundred pages, and it is pretty available in both a single-volume edition and in three slim volumes. The recent reprints got pretty good distribution, and I have even seen them pop up used (I pretty much only buy second-hand).

About two years ago, maybe less, I read Ernaux's "Perdre", a novel about a middle-aged French journalist letting go of herself in order fully to enjoy an affair with a youngish Russian diplomat. The think I liked most about it was the suggestiveness of the story that never is explicitly stated. The audience understands that the tension between the older woman and the young man is more than his wife at home but without being told to what degree their careers heighten it.

Great finds!

Great Expectations has illustrations too. But I love the look of the illustrations in Light Meters. Also love Borges. Where do you source your books?

Awesome! :D

Currently reading Bleak House, with Our Mutual Friend as a follow up. BH is a nightmare vision of society and I'm told OMF is even darker.

Looks great! I'm currently reading Stoner by John Williams