Dear Hannah! What an inspired discussion of some amazing works. It got all my reading archetypes zinging! I love The Odd Women and the new edition of Jewett looks lovely. I’m going to explore this Wharton novel-it’s new to me. You are on fire. Can’t wait for Part Two! Cheers! 💐🌹🌻
That’s a lovely edition of The Living Mountain! And what a beautiful memory you shared about David. I haven’t read it it but it is going to make my January plans now. I am thoroughly enjoying your Bookukkah! I have requested my library pick up a copy of Grossman’s new book. Thanks Hannah!
So happy to see you reading books that aren’t “ponderous”. I have pre ordered Grossman’s book. Familiar with Nan Shepherd, Sarah Oren Jewett, Edith Wharton.
I like the look of these imprints, especially the McNally ones with French flaps. Thanks for describing the feel of the paper and appearance of the text. It matters! I’m interested in The Ex-Wife and The Country of Pointed Firs.
I read and reviewed "Nightwood" around the time I first started my channel way back in 2012. It's this wonderful mix of high European modernism and a distinctly American noir aesthetic. A lot of people think it's highly experimental, but I remember loving it - and I'm usually pretty traditional when it comes to the prose styles I'm drawn to.
Hi Hannah, I love Dorothy Parker and I really suggest you listen to her. Read some of her stories on audio if you haven’t already. I listened to them in the 80s and was blown away. Happy fourth night of Hanukkah. Aloha friend.
What beautiful editions. I remember reading Sarah Orne Jewett another lifetime ago, maybe when I was a first-year teacher. I love this series you’re doing, Hannah.
I read Sarah Orne Jewett years ago and fell in love with her writing. And Edith Wharton is an absolute favorite of mine!! Fabulous selections, thank you, Hannah❤️
Ooh! I haven’t been aware of “The Twilight Sleep” by Wharton. I have to go look it up. I look forward to hearing your thoughts when you are ready to share them. I just read her short story collection “Old New York”. None of the 4 stories held a candle to her terrific story “Roman Fever” so it was a bit disappointing. That collection of Dorothy Parker columns sounds like a fun read. I hope you enjoy all your new books, Hannah.
The Dorothy Parker does sound fun, doesn't it! I love Wharton's Roman Fever--although it has been much too long since I read it. I'm sorry to hear that her other stories don't shine in quite the way that one does!
@@clarepotter7584 Would you be interested in reading together as a buddy read? I’m trying to put together some sort of plan for at least the bones of the year-so I am not quite ready to commit to a particular time. But if you are interested in, let’s stay in touch.
Sontag as a teenager at Berkeley fell in love and obsession with Nightwood. This is after her earlier teen experiences of falling in love with Thomas Mann’s writing, and then going and stalking him at his home in LA, eventually being invited in to have tea with the Manns. For my this year’s reading challenge of dead LGBTQ authors I’ve never read before, I decided to tackle it. It was so complex and whiplashing in twist of plot line and narrative, sometimes in the same paragraph, that it made my head hurt. Honestly, I didn’t feel smart enough to be reading it! I have a great understanding and love of Surrealism in the Visual Arts, but I don’t have the parallel when it comes to literature. I had to do small doses of it and then read about it to grasp what was going on. I didn’t not like it, but I think the first read through is only the beginning of reading it. I don’t know if I have the fortitude to try it again, especially soon enough that I can make it connected, instead of feeling like I’m starting from scratch again. I would like to see it done as an opera, it would be opulent and extravagantly dripping in Art Deco and with a visual element added (even if it was done in English) it would feel like a foreign language, but at least I’m used to that with opera. But the visual and musical would offer a level of understanding that I could grasp. I do find Sontag brilliant and I bet it was a puzzle box for her mind to take apart and put back together. I don’t even think she was just being pretentious by loving it, I think it showed her the potential of complexity that a work of art can have and the layers of interpretation that was a foundational for her own work of big ideas and their meaning. There’s a recent edition with a forward by Jeanette Winterson, one of my favorite authors and whose touch of surrealism in her works I have grasped and enjoyed - The Passion & Sexing the Cherry, which are long overdue for a reread.
Thank you Hannah. These are great.The Odd Women is on my list to read in the first half of 2025. I've not read Djuna Barnes and I am trying not to buy new books until I make a significant dent in my towering unread stack(s), but free downloads from Project Gutenberg don't count, right? They don't have the one you mention here do have the collection 'A Book' which I have just downloaded. For Christmas this year I gave my teenage daughter a collection of Penguin moderns, all women writers including a Dorothy Parker. I can't wait to hear what she thinks of her.
@@GertyMae I love the your Christmas present idea! Brilliant. And I’m eager to hear what you think of Gissing. I really need to make a bigger dent in my stack, too-not just for money reasons but because of a lack of space…
Dear Hannah! What an inspired discussion of some amazing works. It got all my reading archetypes zinging! I love The Odd Women and the new edition of Jewett looks lovely. I’m going to explore this Wharton novel-it’s new to me. You are on fire. Can’t wait for Part Two! Cheers! 💐🌹🌻
There are so many here that I would like to read, especially the Parker. I was unaware of Twilight Sleep. Thanks, Hannah.
That’s a lovely edition of The Living Mountain! And what a beautiful memory you shared about David. I haven’t read it it but it is going to make my January plans now. I am thoroughly enjoying your Bookukkah! I have requested my library pick up a copy of Grossman’s new book. Thanks Hannah!
Thank you Hannah I’ve not read any of these classics, but they all sounded interesting.
The Living Mountain sounds like something I would enjoy.
WOW, wow, wow. Thanks. Great compilation.
So happy to see you reading books that aren’t “ponderous”. I have pre ordered Grossman’s book. Familiar with Nan Shepherd, Sarah Oren Jewett, Edith Wharton.
Loved the topic and can't wait for part two.
These are all new to me, Hannah. That plaid that you're wearing is great.
@@JamesRuchala Thanks! It was one of my father’s favorite plaids-and my mother gave me this hooded flannel jacket in his memory. It is so soft!
I like the look of these imprints, especially the McNally ones with French flaps. Thanks for describing the feel of the paper and appearance of the text. It matters! I’m interested in The Ex-Wife and The Country of Pointed Firs.
What a great list and your copies are lovely ❤
I love Dorothy Parker, I will check out that new book.
I read and reviewed "Nightwood" around the time I first started my channel way back in 2012. It's this wonderful mix of high European modernism and a distinctly American noir aesthetic. A lot of people think it's highly experimental, but I remember loving it - and I'm usually pretty traditional when it comes to the prose styles I'm drawn to.
Lovely video. I look forward to your video on Djuna Barnes. The graphique novel looks great
@@carolinefiller3745 Thanks, Caroline! I’m really looking forward to exploring her work!
Look forward to locating a copy of The Living Mountain. Thanks Hannah.
Ooh, I hope you can find one! I'm really enjoying it so far!
Interesting books. The Djuna Barnes book sounds especially interesting
Hi Hannah, I love Dorothy Parker and I really suggest you listen to her. Read some of her stories on audio if you haven’t already. I listened to them in the 80s and was blown away. Happy fourth night of Hanukkah. Aloha friend.
What beautiful editions. I remember reading Sarah Orne Jewett another lifetime ago, maybe when I was a first-year teacher. I love this series you’re doing, Hannah.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Thank you so much, Pat! I do love the new editions!
I read Sarah Orne Jewett years ago and fell in love with her writing. And Edith Wharton is an absolute favorite of mine!! Fabulous selections, thank you, Hannah❤️
@@sandyokey7728 Thank you, Sandy! Have you read this particular Wharton? It is certainly intriguing me.
Ooh! I haven’t been aware of “The Twilight Sleep” by Wharton. I have to go look it up. I look forward to hearing your thoughts when you are ready to share them. I just read her short story collection “Old New York”. None of the 4 stories held a candle to her terrific story “Roman Fever” so it was a bit disappointing.
That collection of Dorothy Parker columns sounds like a fun read. I hope you enjoy all your new books, Hannah.
The Dorothy Parker does sound fun, doesn't it! I love Wharton's Roman Fever--although it has been much too long since I read it. I'm sorry to hear that her other stories don't shine in quite the way that one does!
Those McNally editions look lovely. I would be interested in reading 'The Ex-Wife' it sounds intriguing.
@@clarepotter7584 Would you be interested in reading together as a buddy read? I’m trying to put together some sort of plan for at least the bones of the year-so I am not quite ready to commit to a particular time. But if you are interested in, let’s stay in touch.
@@HannahsBooks Yes, it might be a good incentive to read it!
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Living Mountain and Ex-Wife is now on my 2025 TBR now.
Oh excellent! I'm so eager to hear people talking about Ex-Wife, especially, since it is a book I had not heard of until recently.
Sontag as a teenager at Berkeley fell in love and obsession with Nightwood. This is after her earlier teen experiences of falling in love with Thomas Mann’s writing, and then going and stalking him at his home in LA, eventually being invited in to have tea with the Manns.
For my this year’s reading challenge of dead LGBTQ authors I’ve never read before, I decided to tackle it.
It was so complex and whiplashing in twist of plot line and narrative, sometimes in the same paragraph, that it made my head hurt. Honestly, I didn’t feel smart enough to be reading it!
I have a great understanding and love of Surrealism in the Visual Arts, but I don’t have the parallel when it comes to literature. I had to do small doses of it and then read about it to grasp what was going on. I didn’t not like it, but I think the first read through is only the beginning of reading it. I don’t know if I have the fortitude to try it again, especially soon enough that I can make it connected, instead of feeling like I’m starting from scratch again.
I would like to see it done as an opera, it would be opulent and extravagantly dripping in Art Deco and with a visual element added (even if it was done in English) it would feel like a foreign language, but at least I’m used to that with opera. But the visual and musical would offer a level of understanding that I could grasp.
I do find Sontag brilliant and I bet it was a puzzle box for her mind to take apart and put back together. I don’t even think she was just being pretentious by loving it, I think it showed her the potential of complexity that a work of art can have and the layers of interpretation that was a foundational for her own work of big ideas and their meaning.
There’s a recent edition with a forward by Jeanette Winterson, one of my favorite authors and whose touch of surrealism in her works I have grasped and enjoyed - The Passion & Sexing the Cherry, which are long overdue for a reread.
Thank you Hannah. These are great.The Odd Women is on my list to read in the first half of 2025.
I've not read Djuna Barnes and I am trying not to buy new books until I make a significant dent in my towering unread stack(s), but free downloads from Project Gutenberg don't count, right? They don't have the one you mention here do have the collection 'A Book' which I have just downloaded.
For Christmas this year I gave my teenage daughter a collection of Penguin moderns, all women writers including a Dorothy Parker. I can't wait to hear what she thinks of her.
@@GertyMae I love the your Christmas present idea! Brilliant. And I’m eager to hear what you think of Gissing. I really need to make a bigger dent in my stack, too-not just for money reasons but because of a lack of space…
I don't think I've heard of any of those books. Someday I should do a literature project.
Nightwood was American Joyce