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I've never been able to limit myself to reading one book at a time.
Mostly because I'm not always in the mood for the same book. So right now I've got Dracula on audiobook, am giving Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? another chance, as well as several non-fiction books which I'm reading for...
Just to get this started again...
Outline of Part I / Chapter 1: Introduction - The Willingdone Museum - The finding of the letter - Pre-history of Ireland - Mutt and Jute - Jarl van Hoother and the Pankquean - The Fall 0f Finnegan's Wake - Introduction of H.CE. (taken from James Joyce...
My non-fiction reading is still mostly research-motivated. And some general interest.
Currently reading these:
David Monger: Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The Nation War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
David Aberbach: National Poetry, Empires, and War
Mark D. Larabee...
Do audiobooks count?
I've recently bought, and listened to, Elton John Me; Audible's "Monster Collection (Jekyll & Hyde, Frankenstein, and Dracula).
Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
Haven't bought much else recently. :( BUT, and this is a big but, Alex Pheby's Mordew is out in a few...
With Finnegans Wake I don't think a few chapters at a time is feasable. Too much weirdness to digest on each page for that.
First chapter would be ok I suppose though as it's only 29 pages. The ones after that are a bit longer.
I've never read Hemingway :eek: so I'll join for that if you...
Yes, Jung. And don't forget Beckett.
Let me know when you get your copy / copies and we'll get started.
In the meantime, I'm trying to think of something, uhm, less challenging for a regular book of the month. Perhaps a novella would work.
I've added some links to the original post.
Also some YouTube wake-bits.
This is a little dated with the weirdly animated bust but it's a recording of James Joyce reading from the Anna Livia section of the book.
From earlier on in the book, the ballad of Persse O'Reilly, set to music. :D
She was, yes. Though Lucia's story is a rather sad one and she spent most of her life in a mental institution. Some say that Finnegans Wake is James Joyce's version of his daughter's illness and dreams.
The book I'm reading at the moment is a fictional account giving the perspectives of a lot...
I don't think there is a translation to regular English, or anything that turns it into a coherent narrative unfotunately. Nor is there anyone who can say with any modicum of certainty what it is about except some silly drunkard who gets up a ladder, dies and stays that way for most of the book...