J L’s Comments (group member since Feb 21, 2013)

J L’s comments from the Practical Classics: The Clubhouse group.

As a fellow classics lover, I think you give your intuition far too little credit. :)

And, as a woman no longer in my twenties with a lifetime of reading under my belt, I pretty much know what appeals to my aesthetic, and pretty quickly.

Recommends, however, are always welcome. Talking books is part of the joy of them.

Most of my books are physical entities (ebooks annoy me, yes, I'll own that admission), and the way I encounter books is, therefore, usually serendipitous. I just sort of happen into them, and/or vise versa.

Hope that clarifies somewhat.

Location, shelves, timing...most books find me, I find. Especially the good ones.

"Nightwood" is Djuna Barnes' wonderfully light, dense novel depicting Europe in the 20's (published mid 1930's, feels very lost generation). It's written on a poetry prose style, it was praised by TS Eliot, and it has this gloriously larger than life set of characters of disturbed artistic backgrounds and shifting sexual identities.

It's pretty gorgeous, and it ebbs and flows through my reading life at its own pace. I think you'd like it.

Am currently on another month of re-reading Nightwood (yes, I'm taking my time and yes, it disappears on me every once in a while - I believe it's just trying to slow me down :) ). Gorgeous, gorgeous prose.