#hermann hesse my beloved
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I saw the image of my dream lover before my eyes, clearer than life—much more clearly than I could see my own hand. I talked to it, cried before it, cursed it; I called it [...] Beloved and foresaw its ripe, all-fulfilling kiss, called it devil and whore, vampire and murderer. It lured me into the most tender and beautiful dreams, and into vile shamelessness; nothing was too good and precious for it, nothing too low and bad.
— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth, transl by Damion Searls, (2013)
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updated as of April 12th, 2024
Currently Reading
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (rereading for my IB exam)
Started Reading/On Pause For Now
Animorphs #9 by KA Applegate
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Odyssey by Homer
Misery by Stephen King
The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Intimacy by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Yeast: the Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation by Jamil Zainasheff and Chris White
Reading List
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Electra by Euripides
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg
Transgender Liberation: a Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg
Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Children of the Corn by Stephen King
Cujo by Stephen King
Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Chicken with Plums by Marjan Sartrapi
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Last Man by Mary W. Shelley
Electra by Sophocles
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
None Of This Rocks by Joe Trohman
Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Boy With The Thorn In His Side by Pete Wentz
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Armadillo Prophecy by Zerocalcare
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reading challenge update #8
In January I owned 30 books that I had not read yet, some of them I had been procrastinating for 7 years and counting, and I decided to change that! 2023 shall be the year I eradicate my To-Read-Pile for good. And I just finished half of my goal! Even better, if we look at the total number of words, I'm actually ahead of schedule, because the longest books are already done. If I keep this pace, I could even complete my reading challenge in November, and then I'll be totally free to BUY NEW BOOKS!! :DDD
Just finished: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse + Il était une fois dans le Nord (Once Upon A Time In The North) by Philip Pullman + Le Roi Lear (King Lear) by William Shakespeare
Currently reading: And I Darken by Kiersten White
Next on schedule: L'Ultime Expérience by Bruce Benamran + Boudicca by Jean-Laurent Del Socorro + Le Flambeau + Témoin à charge by Agatha Christie
They're technically not on my challenge schedule because I don't own them (yet) but I'll probably want to read Now I Rise and Bright We Burn by Kiersten White in priority since the book I'm reading right now is part of a trilogy. I'm only about a third in but I enjoy it a lot so far, so I'm pretty positive I'll want to read the rest.
It's based on east-European history, which I'm not very knowledgeable about, but I don't want to fact-check a lot until I've completed the series, just in case real history spoils me. The vibe and the characters are really interesting and alluring, I'm very curious to see where it'll get me!
It's not my first time reading a K. White book, in 2021 I read The Guinevere Deception and I really liked it! It was part of a trilogy, too, which is now complete, and was a rewrite of the Arthurian legend from the POV of "Guinevere"... I still remember clearly what I liked about the characters, which is a good sign that they were endearing (Lancelot my beloved), and I loved how the magic worked.
The other books I just finished were rather short and I haven't a lot of thoughts about them. An advice just in case, don't read the one by Philip Pullman before reading the trilogy it's supposed to follow, His Dark Materials (my favorite books btw)
The next books I own that I have to read are all in French. First, a thriller written by a French YouTuber who did popular science videos that helped me a lot when I was in high-school. I don't really know what to expect from this one. I'll also have to read Boudicca, which I think I'll like, and two short story collections by Agatha Christie, which don't have English equivalents and I can't bother to list the story titles.
I have a 22-hours-round plane trip ahead of me this summer so I hope the lightest of my physical copies and the ebooks on my phone will keep me from loosing my mind :')
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#15 books out of 30#reading challenge#titles in French I read in French#titles in English I read in English#And I Darken by Kiersten White#text#my post#books
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Both were right. Both gave the unvarnished truth about my shiftless existence. Both showed clearly how unbearable and untenable my situation was […] He must with his own hand make an end of his detested existence— unless, molten in the fire of a renewed self-knowledge, he underwent a change and passed over to a self, new and undisguised. Alas! this transition was not unknown to me. I had already experienced it several times, and always in periods of utmost despair. On each occasion of this terribly uprooting experience, my self, as it then was, was shattered to fragments. Each time deep-seated powers had shaken and destroyed it; each time there had followed the loss of a cherished and particularly beloved part of my life that was true to me no more. […] It was then that my solitude had its beginning. Years of hardship and bitterness went by. I had built up the ideal of a new life, inspired by the asceticism of the intellect. I had attained a certain serenity and elevation of life once more, submitting myself to the practice of abstract thought and to a rule of austere meditation. But this mold, too, was broken and lost at one blow all its exalted and noble intent. A whirl of travel drove me afresh over the earth; fresh sufferings were heaped up, and fresh guilt. And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelessness and despair, such as I had now to pass through once more. It is true that every time my life was shattered in this way I had in the end gained something, some increase in liberty and in spiritual growth and depth, but with it went an increased loneliness, an increasing chill of severance and estrangement. Looked at with the bourgeois eye, my life had been a continuous descent from one shattering to the next that left me more remote at every step from all that was normal, permissible and healthful. […] I stood outside all social circles, alone, beloved by none, mistrusted by many, in unceasing and bitter conflict with public opinion and morality […] The pomposity of the sciences, societies, and arts disgusted me. My views and tastes and all that I thought, once the shining adornments of a gifted and sought-after person, had run to seed in neglect and were looked at askance. Granting that I had in the course of all my painful transmutations made some invisible and unaccountable gain, I had had to pay dearly for it; and at every turn my life was harsher, more difficult, lonely and perilous. […] Was I really to live through all this again? All this torture, all this pressing need, all these glimpses into the paltriness and worthlessness of my own self, the frightful dread lest I succumb, and the fear of death. Wasn't it better and simpler to prevent a repetition of so many sufferings and to quit the stage? […] No, in all conscience, there was no power in the world that could prevail with me to go through the mortal terror of another encounter with myself, to face another reorganisation, a new incarnation, when at the end of the road there was no peace or quiet— but forever destroying the self, in order to renew the self.
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (trans. Basil Creighton)
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Hi, Maite! How are you? May I ask, please? Do you have a copy of Wandering by Hermann Hesse? If so, could you share it? I can't find it anywhere, and in my country, Amazon sells it absurdly expensive, because it would be only an international purchase. In case you don't have it could you please, share this ask? Maybe someone else has a copy in English, Spanish, or Portuguese...
Thank you very much! ♥
hiiiiii 🤠🌷
i found it on Open Library (an ebook library similar to our beloved Z-Library)
here u go! you have to create an account (it's free so don't worry) and then you can borrow it and download it. here's a youtube tutorial <3
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Starting a buddy read with @rollingthunderpouringrain ✨
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Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
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The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosiński
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✅Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Paperweight by Meg Haston
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Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
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Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
Marble by Amalie Smith
Oranges by John McPhee
New Forest by Josefine Klougart
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A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Playlist for a Broken Heart by Cathy Hopkins
My Sweet Orange Tree by José Mauro de Vasconcelos
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata
The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Akner
Trampoline by Robert Gipe
Weedeater by Robert Gipe
Ohio by Stephen Markley
Cherry by Nico Walker
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani
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The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Idiot by Elif Bautman
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
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Thriller
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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
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In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
The Fever by Megan Abbott
Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain
The Woman in the Window by J. Finn
The Truants by Kate Weinberg
Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering
The One by John Marrs
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel
Romance
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When We Collided by Emery Lord
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Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Grip by Kennedy Ryan
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Mystery
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Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
The Taking of Annie Thorne by C.J. Tudor
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
Religion
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
Historical
Lovely War by Julie Berry 
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Oliver Loving by Stefan Merrill Block
The Girls by Emma Cline
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Sci Fi
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Magical Realism
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
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Adventure
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Outlawed by Anna North
Postmodern
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White Noise by Don DeLillo
Dystopian
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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
1984 by George Orwell
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The Binding by B.R. Collins
The Dance Sequence Series by Aidan Chambers
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
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Horror
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Women Talking by Miriam Toews
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Gothic
Hangsman by Shirley Jackson
LGBT
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Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Psychological
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hi!!! i'm a new follower but i LOVE the concept of literature hours because omg BOOKS!!
anyways - i'm making a summer reading list, what are your recommendations for *classics* to add?
and also if you haven't, i just finished beloved by toni morrison and it was AMAZING, like i'm still thinking about it. it just slowly developed into this masterpiece & was so profound - okay i'll stop rambling haha
Hi, Sam! Welcome! also I just checked out your blog and I am so excited to check out your Angstpril works shshshsh And I am always happy to recommend classics to people! It’s my favorite genre 🥺
Probably the closest thing I have to Beloved (from what I’ve read about it) would be Silence by Shusaku Endo? Not in plot, but perhaps in tone. I also always recommend Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; it’s another one of those dark, reflective, psychological stories and one of my all-time favorites. Jane Eyre’s obviously there, too. Hermann Hesse’s Demian lives in my mind rent-free. Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, maybe Faust (Pt. I) by Goethe, too.
I’ve just realized most of these are kind of dark, oops. I swear I read some happier stuff hfskfdakl
And I’ve also added Beloved to my reading list!!! Rambling is always welcome here and, in fact, encouraged.
It’s Literature Hours!
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BANNED CLASSICS
Banned Classic Books - banned in various countries, time periods, etc. Non-fiction, children's, modern, etc.
How many have you read?
1
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
2
The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
3
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
4
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
5
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
6
Ulysses (James Joyce)
7
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
8
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
9
1984 (George Orwell)
10
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
11
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
12
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
13
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
14
Animal Farm (George Orwell-1945)
15
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
16
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
17
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
18
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
19
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
20
Song of Solomon (The Song of Songs, also Song of Solomon or Canticles, is one of the megillot found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim, and a book of the Old Testament.)
21
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
22
Native Son (Richard Wright)
23
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Ken Kesey)
24
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
25
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
26
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
27
Go Tell It on the Mountain. (James Baldwin)
28
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
29
The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
30
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
31
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
32
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
33
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
34
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
35
Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
36
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
37
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
38
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
39
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
40
Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
41
The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
42
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
43
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
44
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
45
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
46
Candide (Voltaire)
47
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
48
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haley and Malcolm X)
49
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
50
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
51
Howl ( Allen Ginsberg - a poem)
52
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
53
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
54
Our Bodies, Ourselves (a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective)
55
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
56
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
57
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell R. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin)
58
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert a Heinlein)
59
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
60
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
61
Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
62
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
63
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
64
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
65
Arabian Nights (Richard Francis Burton & Geraldine McCaughrean)
66
Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
67
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
68
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
69
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
70
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)
71
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
72
The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
73
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
74
Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling)
75
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
76
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
77
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
78
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
79
The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)
80
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (lMark Twain)
81
That Was Then, This Is Now (S.E. Hinton)
82
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
83
Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
84
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
85
The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)
86
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis)
87
The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
88
James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
89
Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm)
90
The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson)
91
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Alvin Schwartz
92
Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
93
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
94
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka -1915)
95
Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
96
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
97
The Well of Loneliness (Radclyffe Hall)
98
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
99
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
100
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
“A book banned” sounds like a joke.
Are people a bunch of idiots that have to be controlled by some System that decides what can be read and what can not?
It is ridiculous.
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1, 4, 20 for the book asks :)
trying REALLY hard not to answer “Patti Smith” on all of these haha:
1. is there a book you think everyone should read?
I don’t really like the “should”, because reading should always be fun and with every book, no matter how much I adored it, i can see why people wouldn’t like it. I definitely would recommend trying Hermann Hesse to everyone, maybe Narcissus and Goldmund, and I also think everyone can benefit from reading Beloved by Toni Morrison.
4. do you have a favourite non-fiction book?
I LOVE a good artist memoir. I realised a couple of months ago that books by musicians or about the music scene are easily my one of my favourite genres, and more than half of all non-fiction i ever read. To avoid naming the obvious choices, i’d go with Greetings from Bury Park by Sarfraz Manzoor. It’s VERY much a book for Bruce Springsteen fans, but it’s just such a hard-hitting, hopeful story of a boy who had a dream and made it come true. And just... a beautiful love letter to Springsteen’s music, but also rock music and fandom in general.
Something else I really enjoyed was Christiane and Goethe by Sigrid Damm. It’s mainly about Goethe’s wife, Christiane Vulpius, but it tells a lot about Goethe as a person and life in 18th/19th century Weimar as well. You feel very close to these people and it has just the right amount of gossip.
20. what author—dead or alive—would you want to meet and discuss (their) books with?
okay NOW: Patti Smith!!! I mean I’d also mention Bruce Springsteen, but if it’s specifically a meeting about writing, books and reading, it’s Patti. Her books and poetry have had such a deep impact on me and she knows so much about literature, it would just be an absolute DREAM to talk to her. Meeting her at all would be. I adore her so much.
thank you! ♥
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In Memory of:
Gray-Card’s Year End Top 5 Photo Extravaganza 2018
Thank you @ms-excuse-me for hosting this annual tradition!!
Here are my Top 5 picks for 2018:
“Everything is always more beautiful reflected in your eyes.” ~Pon and Zi
“By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness” ~Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.” ~Hermann Hesse
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”~Anaïs Nin
Thank you for the support given to me and for the friendships made!! Cheers to a very Happy 2019!! ~Angie 😙💕🤗
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Because of you
My love letters to the Elvnking
Hermann Hesse quote
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Herman Hesse
Brother death
To me you will come aswell,
You will not forget.
And over is my torment,
And the shackles break.
Yet you seem strange and far,
Dearest brother death,
Shining like a cold star
Over my distress.
But one time you'll be close
And suffused by flames -
Come, beloved one, I am here,
Take me, I am yours.
Hermann Hesse is probably my favourite German Poet.
His depth and his imagery are incredible. some poems seem dull or cliché, but sometimes all they are is just that they are nice. I hate when people are so super stuck up about poetry or art in general. Not everything has to have a meta meaning. Sometimes, things can just be good.
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Day 76
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) - Wandering, Notes and Sketches (1920)
"To be at home with myself! How different life would be! There would be a center, and out of that center all forces would reach. But there is no center in my life; my life hovers between many poles and counterpoles. A longing for home here, a longing for wandering there. A longing for solitude and cloister here, and an urge for love and community there.
Many detours I will still follow, many fulfillments will still disillusion me. One day, everything will reveal its meaning. There, where contradictions die, is Nirvana. Within me, they still burn brightly, beloved stars of longing."
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