Keep the blue side up

17
Feb
Current read. Highly recommend reading the Paris wife’s husband’s A Moveable Feast first. And maybe The Sun Also Rises, which was written while they were still married and from which she received all royalties as her divorce settlement—oops, spoiler.

Current read. Highly recommend reading the Paris wife’s husband’s A Moveable Feast first. And maybe The Sun Also Rises, which was written while they were still married and from which she received all royalties as her divorce settlement—oops, spoiler.

29
Jan
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Only a handful of very extraordinary people will be bullfighters. The rest of us have to accept that we never will. The trick is learning to live with that knowledge.

“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”
~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Only a handful of very extraordinary people will be bullfighters. The rest of us have to accept that we never will. The trick is learning to live with that knowledge.

27
Jan
I just finished Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the first book in the Hemingway book club my daughter and I started. There are so many things I want to say about the themes, the writing style, so many passages I’d like to quote, but mostly I just wish I could reach into the pages of the book and take the bottle away from him.

I just finished Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the first book in the Hemingway book club my daughter and I started.

There are so many things I want to say about the themes, the writing style, so many passages I’d like to quote, but mostly I just wish I could reach into the pages of the book and take the bottle away from him.

15
Jan

This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.

Chapter 4, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway


1
Jan
Starting a Hemingway Book Club with my daughter Skyler because of this guy in this movie. First tome on the list: his first novel, The Sun Also Rises 

Starting a Hemingway Book Club with my daughter Skyler because of this guy in this movie.

First tome on the list: his first novel, The Sun Also Rises 

12
Dec
“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.” ~Ernest Hemingway, PREFACE, A Moveable Feast How can anyone not love Hemingway? I’m reading this book again for the very first time. The actual first time that I read it I was a child of 20. Now, through the lens of someone much older, and after a few trips to Paris, it is a completely different book. And I’m loving it.

“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”

~Ernest Hemingway, PREFACE, A Moveable Feast

How can anyone not love Hemingway? I’m reading this book again for the very first time. The actual first time that I read it I was a child of 20. Now, through the lens of someone much older, and after a few trips to Paris, it is a completely different book. And I’m loving it.