Jane Vandenburgh

My favorite of Rooney’s books

Revisado: 09-30-24

I loved the intimacy with which the love affair between Ivan and Margaret is drawn. From the first moments it feels as if it’s a relationship between intellectual and sensual equals.

No one writes female sexuality better than Sally Rooney.

I was less well persuaded by Peter and his entanglements, in the both women seem slightly implausible but the raging anger and resentment the two brothers share feels entirely true.

I love her command of physical detail, rainy streets, silent car rides, and— my god— the crisp brilliance of her dialogue

I love this book

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Necessary Reading for These Troubled Times

Revisado: 11-05-22

No one but Nick Offerman could render this carefully reasoned and important book with the tenderness and depth and wit it so deserves.

It’s crucial that Wendell Berry be read and heard and taken to heart as it’s impossible to understand who we are as Americans — in all our hues and creeds, our dialects and ethnicities — without this kind of deep historical grounding. We all need to rediscover ourselves in terms of values.

We all need to be healed, as does the land we’ve taken and abused. To be made whole is at the base of the Greek word that gives us salvation.

This book — so clearsighted — left me feeling strangely uplifted, knowing myself to be so lucky to be in the presence of such loving and necessary genius

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Read Tolstoy’s Great Books in Pevear Yolokhonsky’s Genius Translation

Revisado: 11-28-21

Tolstoy’s magnificent book now has the brilliant translation it’s so long deserved— Constance Garnett’s is simply careworn: creaky, Victorian, old

Before Pevear & Yolokhonsky set to work — or so I’ve been told by Russian speakers — English speakers couldn’t hear the deeply rich, darkly comic undertones in the Russian geniuses: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol, these masters of life’s dance of hopefulness and tragedy

I love their work, which has brought both War and Peace and Anna Karenina alive as I never felt before, into a place of what feels like a physical experience of the profound and epic spiritual truth, not only Russian but all of humankind’s benighted history

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Invaluable book can’t imagine anyone wouldn’t benefit from reading it

Revisado: 09-17-21

Completely necessary for anyone hoping to understand what Eric Hobsbawm calls The Short American Century and the part The Wise men played

The narration is wooden and riff with true gaff but mispronunciations however

Still. So invaluable I’m gong to read and listen again

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The Over-the-Top Narration —hyper dramatic and false — made this book unlistenable

Revisado: 04-24-21

This narrator seems to think she’s doing the Royal Shakespeare Theatre— totally out of keeping with this important and somber part of our American history

Or maybe it’s sensationalistic in the manner of People Magazine or Entertainment Tonight

Just so strident and awful

PLEASE give tone some thought

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Timothy West Is a Brilliant Voice Actor

Revisado: 12-31-17

This is probably the one Trollope a person needs to read and West is definitely THE PERFECT narrator in that he has all the class caste accents. Even his women characters are admirably done

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