There is a very pleasant music album of Proustiana called “Le Sonate de Vinteuil” by Maria and Nathalia Milstein. You would also find it helpful to look at “Paintings in Proust” by Eric Karpeles.

You may also enjoy Alain de Botton’s book “How Proust Can Change Your Life.”

Missouri librarian here. My large library system will lose a small amount of funding, rural libraries will be harmed more by this, but we do have a dysfunctional board doing their usual shennanigans...resulting in the budget being f***** with, causing numerous problems including a hiring freeze in my building which directly affects me, and the help I am able to get with the particular service I work on. I can also state that an no time in my library career have I said "Hey KID! pssst! Comere! Look at all these sexy videos!!!" Nor have I tried to convert kids to be gay. I HAVE however, helped people fill out job applications, create their first email account, find local resources they need to SURVIVE, connected people with life changing books, provided an empathic listening ear...long list. All for NO pay raise in years and now owing to the hiring freeze my job duties have doubled because employees that leave are not being replaced. It's demoralizing. If I didn't really like the job and adore my colleagues, I'd be out of here. We are on the front lines of the dumbassery and it's just getting worse. If you know any librarians, go give them a hug....unless they don't want to be touched. Then leave them the fuck alone.

Saw the film first and do think it's a cracker. One of my favourite films. Now read the book about 10 times. I absolutely love it. So funny. The character is marvellous and the people he meets are absolutely the best. The sequel is great too, Gump and co.

There's a great Bollywood film of this book called Laal Sing Chada. Wonderful stuff

As I was growing more confident in my reading ability, I attempted to read Proust but I realized I have to build up my patience and comprehension more to appreciate it to the max. I’m happy that you seemed to find what I was looking for. In a few years, another attempt will have to happen.

It’s been a long time since I’ve read it, so I don’t have any particularly insightful thoughts off the top of my head, but one tip: you will spend A LOT of time reading (minor spoiler) scenes that involve people talking at house parties or salons. I’m not always the type to listen to music while reading, but found that playing the type of music they were probably listening to at these gatherings — particularly Saint-Saens, whose work was referenced by a pseudonym repeatedly in Proust — added to the mood and helped me stay focused.

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Now I want to listen to the audiobook, too!

Very nearly every book made into media might as well be completely different stories down to the bleeping reversal of the actual point.

I recently watched White Noise. Then I read the book. Then I watched the movie again and I was so happy, because they stuck very close and worked ways to include much that did not happen in dialogue but was described in the book! They did leave out, as far as I know, one emotionally important bit of the story, and severely altered another. The former, though, wasn't necessary. The latter probably they felt wouldn't sit well the way it was.

With what little I have read, it seems to be a wonderful book, it is interesting to see what motivates a man to take such a huge undertaking as writing this book. I planned to complete it , but never did, I still plan to complete it.

As long as you do it through the proper channels. Dont show up at their house.

I don’t think most authors get as much attention as you would think so I feel like it would probably make a lot of them feel great to get some positive feedback from a fan.

Whatever Charlotte did, Anne did way better. Her writing is solid, her philosophy unimpeachable, and most importantly, she displays none of the girlish daddy-love-me fantasies that her elder sister was so deplorably afflicted with.

Emily, on the other hand, was in a league of her own.

A waste of time

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is my favorite so far. Some people have said that, even though not the most well known, Anne was the best writer of the three.

I'm a mood reader so instead of making monthly tbrs I make them per season! That way I have the flexibility to change things up if needed. Right now I'm reading Harrow the Ninth :)

I remember my first day of learning about Republican straw man values too.

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You’re the one making the claim. It’s on you to back it up but you block me and call me a name instead. So who’s the lazy one?

> It's insane what the groomer panic has led to

Do you remember a couple years ago when right-wing pundits tried to tell us that furries were replacing school bathrooms with litterboxes? 😂

Worked as an editor at a big house. The big authors get such a volume of fan mail they can’t answer it and hire people to go through it for them. The smaller authors are generally THRILLED, totally THRILLED to hear that their book made an impact. (Caveat: authors are people like everyone else. There are some weird, misanthropic authors out there.)

Often authors have websites and you can contact them via their sites.

This is the sad reality of more them a third of the population not voting and half of what's left, listening to fox new and voting in wannabe fascists.

lol right? I can barely commit to a list for the week. A whole month? Aaagh

French here, I'ld say all Camus' works and of course a favorite of this sub: The Count of Monte Cristo! Zola deserves some love too as he was truly a master with words.

I've taken up to reading in English as well and liked many books that way. However it can't beat my mother tongue.

Boy I wonder where those kids are going to be exposed to sexual material. It couldn't be the device that is in their hands 24/7. No it's probably at the library.

God, you're such a lazy pos. I suggest checking out his autobiography find finding it yourself for fuck's sake.

Oh definitely

I got a note from a reader once. I won’t violate her privacy by going into detail but she said my novel helped her realize something about her own life and make a big change that helped her out of a painful situation. That one note made it all worth it — all of the work, stress, and turmoil. Even if I had never sold another copy after that, it still would have been worth it.

Write the note.