Literature
This will be my first time participating in this meme hosted by Rose City Reader! The task is to share the first line or two from your current read and provide any first impressions. Sounds like fun! Here's mine:
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Literature
Book Beginnings: Herzog by Saul Bellow
This will be my first time participating in this meme hosted by Rose City Reader! The task is to share the first line or two from your current read and provide any first impressions. Sounds like fun! Here's mine:
"If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."
This is one of those opening sentences that completely hooked me and I immediately got that wonderful and exciting feeling that this was going to be an awesome novel. Ever since starting it yesterday, I have been unable to put it down and my initial impression has been correct so far. It's scary how much I see myself in the character of Moses Herzog: neurotic, philosophical, quirky, compulsive, self-depreciating, trouble establishing relationships with women, the list goes on. The writing is incredible--funny, intense, witty, provocative and full of compassion. Where have you been all my life Saul Bellow? I have a good feeling that this novel might become one of my all-time favorites.
Has anyone else read this or anything else by Bellow?
- Top Ten Tuesday: All-time Favorite Books From The Past 3 Years
It's been a while since I've participated in the Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week's topic is far too enticing to pass up. At first, I thought that they meant to list your top 10 favorite books published within...
- Mr. Sammler's Planet By Saul Bellow
?Being right was largely a matter of explanations.? Note: This will be the first of several reviews that I have neglected to write for the last little while. Considering that my memory remains quite poor and the fact that many of these novels...
- Seize The Day By Saul Bellow
?You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. ? Carpe Diem. A widely known Latin phrase but it seems many people, including myself, rarely ever apply this maxim to our lives. Why is that? Personally,...
- Books Beginnings On Friday: Animal Farm By George Orwell
It's that special time of the week again! Props to Rose City Reader for hosting this meme where book bloggers share the first line or two from their current reads and provide some first impressions. Here's mine: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm,...
- Book Beginnings On Friday: Vile Bodies By Evelyn Waugh
It's that time of the week again! Thanks to Rose City Reader for hosting this event where you share the first line or two from your current read and then offer some brief thoughts about any initial impressions. This will be my second time participating...