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Leeya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Leeya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Leeya Mehta
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July 2013
Have you read "Another Country"?
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by Leeya Mehta
“Vivaldo dreamed he was running, running, running, through a country he had always known, but could not now remember, a rocky country.” – from ‘Another Country’, by James Baldwin.
I am writing this in a rocky country, another country, to which I arrived three days ago, to visit dear friends who I had not seen for a long time. I, like many of you, have been reading fr Read more of this blog post »
by Leeya Mehta
“Vivaldo dreamed he was running, running, running, through a country he had always known, but could not now remember, a rocky country.” – from ‘Another Country’, by James Baldwin.
I am writing this in a rocky country, another country, to which I arrived three days ago, to visit dear friends who I had not seen for a long time. I, like many of you, have been reading fr Read more of this blog post »
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A Story of the World Before the Fence
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The Towers of Silence
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“On a few occasions in his own books, Thomas [Mann] thought, he had risen above the ordinary world from which the work emerged. The death of Hanno in -Buddenbrooks-, for example, or the quality of the desire described in -Death in Venice-, or the séance scenes in -The Magic Mountain.- Maybe in other parts of other books too. But he did not think so.He had let dry humor and social settings dominate his writing; he was afraid of what might take over if he did not exercise caution and control.
He could imagine decency, but that was hardly a virtue in a time that had grown sinister. He could imagine humanism, but that made no difference in a time that exalted the will of the crowd. He could imagine a frail intelligence, but that meant little in a time that honored brute strength. As the slow movement [of Beethoven's String Quartet, op. 132] came gravely to an end, he realized that, if he could summon the courage, he would have to entertain evil in a book, he would have to open the door to w ...more Colm Tóibín |
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“I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.”
― The Gathering
― The Gathering
“On a few occasions in his own books, Thomas [Mann] thought, he had risen above the ordinary world from which the work emerged. The death of Hanno in -Buddenbrooks-, for example, or the quality of the desire described in -Death in Venice-, or the séance scenes in -The Magic Mountain.- Maybe in other parts of other books too. But he did not think so.He had let dry humor and social settings dominate his writing; he was afraid of what might take over if he did not exercise caution and control.
He could imagine decency, but that was hardly a virtue in a time that had grown sinister. He could imagine humanism, but that made no difference in a time that exalted the will of the crowd. He could imagine a frail intelligence, but that meant little in a time that honored brute strength. As the slow movement [of Beethoven's String Quartet, op. 132] came gravely to an end, he realized that, if he could summon the courage, he would have to entertain evil in a book, he would have to open the door to what was darkly outside his own comprehension.”
― The Magician
He could imagine decency, but that was hardly a virtue in a time that had grown sinister. He could imagine humanism, but that made no difference in a time that exalted the will of the crowd. He could imagine a frail intelligence, but that meant little in a time that honored brute strength. As the slow movement [of Beethoven's String Quartet, op. 132] came gravely to an end, he realized that, if he could summon the courage, he would have to entertain evil in a book, he would have to open the door to what was darkly outside his own comprehension.”
― The Magician
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