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.

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.

25
Jan
laughingsquid: Sightsmap, Interactive Heatmap of the World’s Top Sightseeing Spots Fascinating. This map is based on the number of photographs posted of each site on Foursquare (I didn’t know anybody was still doing Foursquare). The top five most photographed places in the world are New York City, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and Istanbul. ISTANBUL?  Wow, I would totally have missed that last one on a fill-in-the-blank test. I would have guessed London. Or the Pyramids of Giza. Or San Francisco. Or Hawaii. But ISTANBUL? 

laughingsquid:

Sightsmap, Interactive Heatmap of the World’s Top Sightseeing Spots

Fascinating. This map is based on the number of photographs posted of each site on Foursquare (I didn’t know anybody was still doing Foursquare). The top five most photographed places in the world are New York City, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and Istanbul. ISTANBUL? 

Wow, I would totally have missed that last one on a fill-in-the-blank test. I would have guessed London. Or the Pyramids of Giza. Or San Francisco. Or Hawaii. But ISTANBUL? 
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.