This is such a great list ! I just added a few of those books to my list :) Thanks a lot ! I love, love reading about other people's reading. I already love The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams is my favourite playwright !), Eating Animals (or anything by Jonathan Safran Foer) and of course The Bell Jar. I added Dorothy Parker, Ken Kesey and Thornton Wilder (I've only read the Bridge of San Luis Rey) to my list ! Thanks a lot ! Have you read other plays by Arthur Miller ? I very recently discovered him with The Crucible which I found absolutely fascinating ! This play looks very good too! And I also realised I already had that Capote short story in my Collected Short Stories book but I haven't read it yet.
Me too! I love book recommendations. Actually, I picked up Eating Animals because of a review/ post you wrote about it. I came across it on a bookstore and remembered it. I would never have picked it up otherwise. I'm sort of slow and would never have guessed it was actually about eating meat. Hehe. I had been meaning to read The Bell Jar for so long, I finally did this summer. I had already read a few of Sylvia Plath's poems and was a bit scared of reading the book. I don't know why. But I think I read it at a perfect time. I thought it was great
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Oh really ? That makes me very happy then :D This is very cool to know that ! Is that the reason why you became a vegetarian by the way ?
I couldn't agree more about the moment (circumstances, mood...) being important when you read The Bell Jar ! It can be powerful and thus overwhelming.
Oh that makes me really excited for the Dorothy Parker book then ! I know she's commonly considered as great but I had never talked with anyone who had actually read her.
I read The Bridge of San Luis Rey a very long time ago but I know I thought it was really good. Very interesting. I read it at the time I had a class on South America. I have some quotes from that book written in my notebook and these are some of the best quotes I've ever collected :) You should read it ! Thank you for the recommendation :)
Yes! Well, the book was a push in that direction, yes. I had been thinking about it for some time, but to actually know how animals are killed and raised was too disheartening (really after the first couple of chapters I had made up my mind never to eat meat again - and it just kept getting worse! I mean, the baby chicks being killed was bad, but after the cows and especially the pigs, I couldn't help thinking how lucky they were to be killed almost at birth). My grandmother raises chickens, so from an early age I knew where the animals I ate came from (real live beings) but I had no idea the way they were treated and killed and processed. What an eye-opener
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I already love The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams is my favourite playwright !), Eating Animals (or anything by Jonathan Safran Foer) and of course The Bell Jar. I added Dorothy Parker, Ken Kesey and Thornton Wilder (I've only read the Bridge of San Luis Rey) to my list ! Thanks a lot ! Have you read other plays by Arthur Miller ? I very recently discovered him with The Crucible which I found absolutely fascinating ! This play looks very good too!
And I also realised I already had that Capote short story in my Collected Short Stories book but I haven't read it yet.
(Happy new year !)
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I couldn't agree more about the moment (circumstances, mood...) being important when you read The Bell Jar ! It can be powerful and thus overwhelming.
Oh that makes me really excited for the Dorothy Parker book then ! I know she's commonly considered as great but I had never talked with anyone who had actually read her.
I read The Bridge of San Luis Rey a very long time ago but I know I thought it was really good. Very interesting. I read it at the time I had a class on South America. I have some quotes from that book written in my notebook and these are some of the best quotes I've ever collected :) You should read it !
Thank you for the recommendation :)
I will read A Christmas Memory ! :)
Do you mean the Salinger icon ? :D Thanks !!
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