As a part of #FinishYear, I will be reviewing books I read in 2012.Unexpectedly, I loved Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.I fully expected to grit my teeth and grimace my way through my reading.Why did I read this book, you ask, if I was anticipating a torturous reading? This summer my crazy fami...
What can I really say about this book? A very personal account of living in Paris in the 1920's. On one hand you have his dealings with and impressions of such characters as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford, T.S. Eliot, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. On the other hand there is a tender and wis...
A Moveable Feast is a relatively light-hearted collection of essays and vignettes about Hemingway’s life in post-war Paris with his first wife Hadley. His uber-mensch personality explodes from the page, as he expresses even the minutest details of his life at this time. From his obvious enjoyment at...
Quotable.“"Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.” So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that ...
There are moments of greatness (particularly the last chapter) but often I don't find his style particularly effective for this kind of book. I can't help but notice that the rapturous reviews at the front of this copy seem to be more happy that there was some unknown Hemingway rather than happy ab...
Another book that was available in the Kindle format, but is no longer, at least not for Europeans! Of course, having finally chosen this book rather than The Paris Wife or Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife, this one is no longer available for Europeans! Doesn't matter; I h...
Non-fiction (mostly at least, I assume) stories of his time in Paris. Reads like a diary filled with his take on the luminaries of the day within and around his circle of acquaintances. Enjoyable on that gossipy level.
I never liked Hemingway's prose too much, but the moment I found out about this book of memoirs, I knew I'd love it. And I did.There was a time when two people could live comfortably and well in Europe on five dollars a day, when young aspiring writers lived in Paris and wrote in cafés, when knowing...
As per usual, it's love/hate with me and Hemingway. What a talented louse! It makes me so angry to read about Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein this way. He was lucky enough to know them, and be considered a friend, and he's completely betrayed them. Even worse, I can't stand the way he lionizes Hadley ...
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