Sep 29·edited Sep 29Liked by Alyssa aka Nerdy Nurse Reads
Given the references in previous newsletters to the classic 1941 film, “That Hamilton Woman”, the story of the tragic romance between Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, the following anniversary seems worth noting.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT! Born today, September 29, 1758, at the Rectory of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, a son, Horatio Nelson, safely delivered to the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife, Mrs. Catherine Suckling. A little brother for Maurice, Susanna, and William. Mother and son are doing well.
That's to say, today is Lord Nelson's 276th birthday! Huzzah!
The only fungi related work that comes to mind is the 1977 book by Raymond Briggs called, "Fungus the Bogeyman", which is the sort of book adults tell themselves they're buying for their kids, even though they know they're really buying it for themselves.
the silk mask is life changing! i'm excited for the next chaos stream!!! the fungi book is very intriguing!! and i had no idea there was a new han kang!!
After your first mention of “A Dance to the Music of Time” in the week before last’s newsletter, I was curious about what you might have to say about the series after having read a little deeper into the first novel.
A few years ago, I read “The Forsyte Saga” by John Galsworthy, which I enjoyed very much and which covers a slightly earlier period of British social history. The edition I read comprised three novels and two interludes for a total of a little over 700 pages. After congratulating myself for having crossed “The Forsyte Saga” off my literary bucket list, I was a little miffed to discover later on that there was such a thing as “The Forsyte Chronicles”, which comprises a further six novels and two interludes. By that time, however, my interest in Galsworthy had paled, and was insufficient to motivate me into taking on these additional volumes, and so I never have.
Looking at Anthony Powell’s series, consuming it in its entirety would be the equivalent of reading four “Forsyte Sagas”, which makes me consider that you’d have to be the reader equivalent of a Burmese python to swallow all those upwards of what I would estimate to be about 3,000 pages. On the other hand, if the tone of Powell’s magnum opus is a combination of Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse, as you say it is, then it really does sound like jolly good fun and worth reading, or at least checking out. What ho! What ho!
Yes it was me, and you’ve probably heard me talk about him because of the poetry book!
Given the references in previous newsletters to the classic 1941 film, “That Hamilton Woman”, the story of the tragic romance between Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, the following anniversary seems worth noting.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT! Born today, September 29, 1758, at the Rectory of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, a son, Horatio Nelson, safely delivered to the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife, Mrs. Catherine Suckling. A little brother for Maurice, Susanna, and William. Mother and son are doing well.
That's to say, today is Lord Nelson's 276th birthday! Huzzah!
Happy Birthday to the one-eyed old fool!
The only fungi related work that comes to mind is the 1977 book by Raymond Briggs called, "Fungus the Bogeyman", which is the sort of book adults tell themselves they're buying for their kids, even though they know they're really buying it for themselves.
the silk mask is life changing! i'm excited for the next chaos stream!!! the fungi book is very intriguing!! and i had no idea there was a new han kang!!
After your first mention of “A Dance to the Music of Time” in the week before last’s newsletter, I was curious about what you might have to say about the series after having read a little deeper into the first novel.
A few years ago, I read “The Forsyte Saga” by John Galsworthy, which I enjoyed very much and which covers a slightly earlier period of British social history. The edition I read comprised three novels and two interludes for a total of a little over 700 pages. After congratulating myself for having crossed “The Forsyte Saga” off my literary bucket list, I was a little miffed to discover later on that there was such a thing as “The Forsyte Chronicles”, which comprises a further six novels and two interludes. By that time, however, my interest in Galsworthy had paled, and was insufficient to motivate me into taking on these additional volumes, and so I never have.
Looking at Anthony Powell’s series, consuming it in its entirety would be the equivalent of reading four “Forsyte Sagas”, which makes me consider that you’d have to be the reader equivalent of a Burmese python to swallow all those upwards of what I would estimate to be about 3,000 pages. On the other hand, if the tone of Powell’s magnum opus is a combination of Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse, as you say it is, then it really does sound like jolly good fun and worth reading, or at least checking out. What ho! What ho!