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Anna’s 2025 Year in Books
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Bluebeard's Castle
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The Love Witch: screenplay
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Viva: screenplay
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Post Factum Introduction to Bluebeard's Castle
I was inspired to write this post factum introduction to Bluebeard's Castle after reading the one penned by Vladimir Nabokov's for his novel Bend Sinister. On a first read that clever tragedy had seemed like an opaque and arcane puzzle, but on a second read I was seized by how the introduction clarified points that had been widely misunderstood by readers, and struck by how the novel s
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Peter wrote: "He's wrong about Borges but this is a brilliant review of Ada."
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| I had very strong emotions on reading this, so much so that I view it as a transformative, nearly life-changing read. In Lustmord, Maria Tatar examines male fantasies of violence towards women as expressed mainly in artworks from the Weimar era in Ge ...more | |
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| This is an extremely clever satirical retelling of Cinderella, the point of which appears to be to imbue its heroine with real character and moral virtues, as opposed to the original Cinderella who was just young, lovely, passive, and in need of bein ...more | |
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| Edward Dmytryk was a good editor, but this book is just okay. I learned a few things though. There's this great rule about editing dialogue that I've never seen anywhere else and that I can't wait to try. I also read his book on directing, and althou ...more | |
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“She stared into the flames, resigning herself to her fate. She now knew that she had fallen victim to a sociopath, and yet she didn’t care. No man is perfect; all men have their flaws, and you have to accept the bad with the good. Some men expect you to mother them, or make you into their maid. Others ignore you, or lecture you, or misunderstand everything you say, or are fussy about trivial things. A bad man can kill you with a knife, but a good man can kill you by boring you to death!”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“He hoisted her up in his strong arms, and she opened her eyes and looked up at him adoringly. She thought that the image must have carried a certain eerie romantic charm, like Dracula carrying off his victim.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“For the first time in her life she wanted to be merged with another, to be carried away by voluptuousness, to be inside of the sublime. She looked into his eyes, and his irises were blank projection screens into which she poured all of her longing.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
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“She stared into the flames, resigning herself to her fate. She now knew that she had fallen victim to a sociopath, and yet she didn’t care. No man is perfect; all men have their flaws, and you have to accept the bad with the good. Some men expect you to mother them, or make you into their maid. Others ignore you, or lecture you, or misunderstand everything you say, or are fussy about trivial things. A bad man can kill you with a knife, but a good man can kill you by boring you to death!”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“For the first time in her life she wanted to be merged with another, to be carried away by voluptuousness, to be inside of the sublime. She looked into his eyes, and his irises were blank projection screens into which she poured all of her longing.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“He hoisted her up in his strong arms, and she opened her eyes and looked up at him adoringly. She thought that the image must have carried a certain eerie romantic charm, like Dracula carrying off his victim.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
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“One may cover over secret actions, but to be silent on what all the world knows, and things which have had effects which are public and of so much consequence is an inexcusable defect.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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