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52 in 2021 - #3 A favourite book
Two books actually, by Phillippa Gregory:
Earthly Joys
Virgin Earth
The story of John Tradescant and his son, also John. Gardeners to the mighty personages of the Stuarts, and great plant collectors. Tulips played a huge part in the history of the time, with the ongoing search for a pure black tulip, and the Dutch tulip bulb mania bubble.
www.lindanewbery.co.uk/2016/09/09/gardener-s-delight-eart...
I did not upload this photo to get faves :) Just wanted to share
a page of one of my favourites books, "The Christmas Tree" by Barbara Segall. The book is a tribute to the Christmas tree, its history and traditions. It's always a magical moment, when the time comes to decorate the tree.
The first person to bring a Christmas Tree into a house, in the way we know it today, may have been the 16th century German preacher Martin Luther. Therefore - O Tannenbaum - Nana Mouskouri
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lhQ_hBT7lA
Wesolych Swiat!
Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Joyeux Noël!
God Jul!
Feliz Navidad!
Happy Holidays!
Many thanks to all for the wonderful Christmas wishes and comments. They touched my heart.
My today's contribution to Sliders Sunday (prepared last week and taken with me to Iceland :p) is a homage to Frank Herbert's epic hexalogy about the Desert Planet and its changing fates. The cyclus remains one of my absolute favourites despite having read it about sixt times :) A Cheers to you Frank, where ever you are now and Happy Sliders Sunday everyone :)
These books by New York author Helene Hanff tell of her love of English literature through her letters to a London bookseller. Marks and Co in Charing Cross Road were able to fulfill her wishes for books and a long lasting friendship blossomed between Helene and the shop staff. The story has been made in to a stage play and a film.
Red white and blue are the colours of many flags, here they represent the UK and the USA.
Smile on Saturday theme: Flag unflagged
Our copy of Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay has been read multiple times to the extent that it has a broken spine, loose pages and a battered cover.
#34 Favourite Book for 123 pictures in 2023
Books for Macro Mondays
My favourite post-apocalypse book is by Stephen King and is entitled "The Stand", written in 1978.
THE STAND is Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.
In my opinion, translating works by Stephen King to the screen usually fails by a wide margin..
However the 1994 tv series broke the curse, being an excellent adaptation.
The tv series was re-made in 2020, I prefer the original myself, but this version was still very watchable.
123 Pictures in 2023, theme # 34 Favourite Book
Pennywise first appeared in the 1986 novel by Stephen King.
I don't have a favourite book as such but I always enjoy Stephen King's books. IT in particular. Pennywise such a menacing character.
"We all float down here"
#34/123 Favourite Book: 123 Pictures in 2023
This is just on a T shirt and reminds me of Pennywise.
The Dancing Bees
An account of the life and senses of the honey bee
by Karl von Frisch
translated to English by Dora Ilse (the translation feels very natural)
published in 1954
for the 123 photos in 2023, the theme for number 34. is "Favourite book" and after a little thought I decided this was my favourite book. I will probably have a different favourite book next week but for now this is it.
Talking Heads - The Book I Read
This rather battered copy of a book by Helen Cooper was a very firm favourite with my youngest when she was little. It is a delight to read as its in rhyme and flows beautifully. Its about a ceramic money box that gets broken and then mended and loved!
Had a go at trying to make the image look old and added a vignette.
Week 23/52: Your favourite book
The name of the wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
I'm not really a person of favourites: i think any book, film, etc has its own different things that make them unique, so I find it difficult to choose favourites. However, this book is one I bought unexpectedly, when nobody knew it and it turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read: intriguing, well written, a good story... I strongly recommend it if you like fantasy!
El nombre del viento, por Patrick Rothfuss
La verdad, no soy alguien que pueda asignar favoritos fácilmente. Para mí, cada libro, película, etc. tiene algo especial que lo hace único, por lo que es muy difícil elegir favoritos. Dicho esto, este libro lo compré casi al azar, cuando nadie lo conocía, y resultó ser uno de los mejores libros que he leído: intrigante, buena trama, buena redacción y excelente traducción (sí, lo he leído en castellano y en inglés). Si os gusta la fantasía, ¡os lo recomiendo!
Just in case somebody is wondering what those books are:
- Cristo si é fermato ad Eboli - Carlo Levi
- Montedidio - Erri De Luca
- Les Fleurs du Mal - Baudelaire
- The prophet - Khalil Gibran
- De l'amour et autres mensonges - Lucia Extebarria
( and the titles are in the languages i have read those books in...)
I could not live without these books.................
Macro Mondays - theme: My Favourite Novel (Fiction)
You see a moving sandworm in the heat of the desert planet Arrakis ...
The novel (source: wikipedia - the link doesn't work):
"In the far future, humanity has eschewed advanced computers in favor of adapting their minds to be capable of extremely complex tasks. Much of this is enabled by the spice melange, which is only found on Arrakis, a desert planet with giant sandworms as its most notable native lifeform. Melange improves general health, extends life and can bestow limited prescience, and its rarity makes it a form of currency in the interstellar empire. (...) As this planet is the only source of the oracular spice melange (...), control of Arrakis is a coveted—and dangerous—undertaking."
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Dune by Frank Herbert (published 1965) is one of my all time favourite novels, which I reread many-times.
It's not merely a thrilling science fiction, but still (after 50 years!) a great story of myth and legend, politics and religion, the human condition and its moral dilemmas.
I had to think a lot about a proper way to portray the desert planet Arrakis in a macro picture and first tried soy flour, but it didn't look right. So I used a metallic wrapping paper and an off-focus to produce bokeh to show the sparkle of sand grains - and an intentional blurry srew anchor (dowel) for the shape of the essential and moving sandworm : )
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Ihr seht hier einen sich über den Wüstensand des Planeten Arrakis bewegender Sandwurm : ))
"Der Wüstenplanet" von Frank Herbert ist eines meiner Allzeit-Lieblingsbücher:
Nicht nur ein spannender (wenig technischer) Science Fiction, sondern vor allem eine auch nach 50 Jahren immer noch großartige Geschichte über Mythologien und Legenden, über Gesellschaft, Politik und Religion, über Menschen und ihre moralischen Zwickmühlen.
Nach einigem Grübeln und Fehlversuchen mit Sojamehl habe ich hier nun versucht, das Glitzern des Sandes des Wüstenplaneten Arrakis durch Bokeh abzubilden und die Form und Bewegung des unentbehrlichen Sandwurms über einen absichtlich unscharfen Dübel. : )
Happy Macro Monday !!
Choosing a 'favourite' book for this topic was always going to be difficult as I have loads of much loved books that I return to over and over. I settled for this title, Emily's Quest, the third in the less well known series by L M Montgomery (the 'Anne' books being known to most people) and a favourite from childhood that I still enjoy.
123 pictures in 2023 (34) favourite book
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Memoirs of a Geisha, life ...... a million little pieces .
I read a LOT but mostly, i must admitt, thrillers and detectives.
Some of my favourites, Stephen King;Patricia Cornwell; John Grisham; John Sandford and Dick Francis and some more. I collect all their books :) A challenge to find some poetry in those !! but who knows
I read all these in English because the translations are often so bad .
Textures dream and fully by Kim Klassen
texture Aged paper by Essence of a Dream
Day 1: Favourite Book
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
It has to be Rebecca. Right from the opening paragraph, I was hooked...
Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done. But as I advanced, I was aware that a change had come upon it. Nature had come into her own again, and little by little had encroached upon the drive with long tenacious fingers, on and on while the poor thread that had once been our drive. And finally, there was Manderley - Manderley - secretive and silent. Time could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls. Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, and suddenly it seemed to me that light came from the windows. And then a cloud came upon the moon and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face. The illusion went with it. I looked upon a desolate shell, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls. We can never go back to Manderley again. That much is certain. But sometimes, in my dreams, I do go back to the strange days of my life which began for me in the south of France...
I have read it many times and there are still sections that make my heart almost stop with suspense. It is, without a doubt, my favourite book.
Dutch translation (7th printing, no date) of Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita", 1955.
Cover design: P.A.H. van der Harst.
Dutch translations of:
- Der Prozess, 1958
- Das Schloss, 1968
- Amerika, 1963.
Cover design: Theo Kurpershoek, who made a large number of great cover designs for the Dutch "Salamander" pocket books.
Cover drawings: Franz Kafka
My much-loved and much-read edition of "The Lord of the Rings". This was my Christmas present from my parents back in 1974 - in those days, you had to read books and not watch DVDs. I've been reading and re-reading it ever since. It is now held together by Sellotape and will-power.
7 Days of Shooting, Worn and Weathered Wednesday.
Dutch translation (1983) of Edward Albee, "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "The Zoo Story", "The Death of Bessie Smith", "The American Dream", 1964.
Cover design: Rikkes Vos.
I love reading, more than I love many other things. I love books, all books. I always carry a book with me, I always want to talk literature, I'm always thinking about reading. For me books and reading have always been a huge part of my life, and they always will be. What's your favourite book? I can't choose one, but my top five would have to include:
Wuthering heights
Enduring Love
Little Women
Norwegian wood (♥ Haruki Murakami)
The dharma bums
Dutch translation (1976) of Emile Guillaumin, "La vie d'un simple", 1904/1943.
Cover drawing: Alphonse-Etienne Dinet, "The Sunday Outing", 1882.
"En als je niet kunt denken of voelen, dacht ze, waar blijf je dan?"
Dutch translation (1983) of Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse", 1927.
I reread this books numerous times. Miller gives us a nice long-term perspective on the role of technology in human development, while Cowper knows how to describe a dramatic climate change. Long before The Day After Tomorrow, but just around the same time as the BBC broadcasting and publication of Nigel Calder's "The Weather Machine", forecasting a new ice age.
Dutch translations (1976) of Walter M. Miller jr., "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (1959) and Richard Cowper, ''The Twilight of Briareus" (1974).
Yes, I read for pleasure, haha.
The Old Man and the Sea:
Pure classic. Nice, short read.
Beer And Circus:
This book completely destroys the credibility of all major universities' undergraduate education. It really teaches people how to look critically at major universities and what they are interested in (prestige, not education).
Friday Night Lights:
Really depressing book, but so well written. It's amazing how the small town lives and dies by their high school football program. True story, as well.
Mere Anarchy, Getting Even and Without Feathers:
Woody Allen is, in my opinion, the best all around comedian the world has ever seen. His movies, stories and interviews are hilarious. Getting Even should be read by everybody that likes humorous writing.
Franz Kafka's Complete Stories:
Such an interesting character. His stories are truly dark and unique. Favorites of mine are The Metamorphosis and Before The Law.
The Watch and Cult Watches:
Watches are my favorite things in the world . Everything about them, the designs,engineering and history all fascinate me. Unfortunately it is an incredibly expensive interest and I am but a poor college student. One day, I'll be able to afford the hobby...hopefully.
Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Tales and Poems:
I've always liked Poe's stories since I read The Pit and the Pendulum which was filled with suspense and a sense of impeding danger. But some of his stories are completely boring, like one where he writes in Irish slang, its impossible to understand. The Raven is a nice poem as well.
Last week (July 2008), five Dutch volunteers were raped in Kenya. This book is, among other things, about the mechanisms of rape in Africa. It's an important book, and Coetzee fully deserved the Nobel Prize.
Dutch translation of J.M. Coetzee, "Disgrace", 2001 (1999).
Cover photo and design: Brett Heathcote, Robert Nix.
Dutch translation (7th printing, 1979) of Marcel Proust, "A la Recherche du temps perdu: Du Cote de chez Swann", 1913.
Cover design: Wout Muller
Dutch translation (17th printing, 1983) of Jan-Paul Sartre, "Les jeux sont faits", 1947.
Cover: Hilke Tasman