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Nick Grammos
is on page 139 of 140
OK, I'm finished. But I'll leave it here until I can write something new. What an exhilarating read.
Now I'm stuck, having read Murnane's views on his books, which to read next. Emerald Blue. A Million Windows. Barley Patch. The Collected Shorter Fiction (as it's known of here in Oz.
— Jan 10, 2023 03:58AM
Now I'm stuck, having read Murnane's views on his books, which to read next. Emerald Blue. A Million Windows. Barley Patch. The Collected Shorter Fiction (as it's known of here in Oz.
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Nick Grammos
is on page 102 of 140
After reading about emerald blue and a million windows I feel I’m in for a treat reading more of murnanes works
— Jan 10, 2023 01:57AM
Nick Grammos
is on page 72 of 140
I tend to gather books I want to read based on the authors I like. This means I seek books to read for some future event like a nuclear winter where I would have nothing else to do except read in a bunker. Here Murnane has re-read all his own books and write about them. So during each chapter, I check my shelves to see how many of his books I have. I'm near complete, only one more book left and the world can end.
— Jan 08, 2023 12:38AM
Nick Grammos
is on page 47 of 140
I have tried to explain already in this work that a work of fiction is for me a pattern of meaning that might need many years for its formation.
I'm not sure why, but my copy of the same edition has 126 pages, the edition notes refers to 140 pages, so have I have read 47 of 126 or 140? I feel lost as I often am in a Murnane landscape, brushing aside Murnane prose, wading through in Murnane voice.
— Jan 06, 2023 05:47PM
I'm not sure why, but my copy of the same edition has 126 pages, the edition notes refers to 140 pages, so have I have read 47 of 126 or 140? I feel lost as I often am in a Murnane landscape, brushing aside Murnane prose, wading through in Murnane voice.
Nick Grammos
is on page 20 of 140
Managed to read multiple pages without stopping often to doodle. Each essay on one of his own books is a retelling of the story of the story. On FR Leavis What little I understood repelled me. The rest made no sense.
The literary ideologue and 60s Svengali sounds little different today's ideological isms one has to learn that take us further from connecting with the ideas writers offer us. Scary then and now.
— Jan 03, 2023 02:52PM
The literary ideologue and 60s Svengali sounds little different today's ideological isms one has to learn that take us further from connecting with the ideas writers offer us. Scary then and now.
Nick Grammos
is on page 2 of 140
I stop after a page, this is inevitable with Murnane. A thought comes, not necessarily the one on the page and I pause to consider, or go off somewhere else in my thoughts. I use a pencil to underline, though I tend not to deface my books any more, preferring fluorescent yellow tags I purchase in packets and use in vast numbers. But I won't ever sell this book. Whoever reads it after me will put up with my commentary
— Jan 02, 2023 12:24PM
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Fionnuala wrote: "Congrats! I've also read to the last page but I skipped the chapter on Border Districts as I'm still reading that book. Which to read next is a dilemma, or indeed whether to read another Murnane a..."
Thanks A Million Windows was the one I was leading towards. But I was curious about the Heytesbury Forest.
Is there a book with that title? I've come across the forest itself in several of Murnane's pieces. It seems to have been very significant for him. A large part of it has since been destroyed, I understood?
Fionnuala wrote: "Is there a book with that title? I've come across the forest itself in several of Murnane's pieces. It seems to have been very significant for him. A large part of it has since been destroyed, I un..."I thought the forest was an image in emerald blue. I could be wrong as I haven't read it. But the forest was a real place that disappeared at the hands of civil engineers. It was in the foothills of the Otway ranges in the south west of Victoria. A beautiful temperate rainforest mountain range that abuts the southern ocean. Beyond it rich earth and farmland. Much of these forests on both sides of Melbourne were uprooted by early settlers. The remnants are truly majestic and affirming. Those that remain are in hills and foothills.
Which to read next is a dilemma, or indeed whether to read another Murnane at all! But I do think A History of Books (if you haven't read it?) or A Million Windows might suit you right now as Last Letter felt to me a little like a continuation of the thoughts in those books...