Latest posts tagged with #TheGoldenNotebook on Bluesky
New York Times critic John Leonard, began his review of Toni Morrison's #SongOfSolomon by listing other amazing books he’d reviewed… it’s safe to say, the list is impressive:
⭐ #Lolita
⭐ #Catch22
⭐ #TheGoldenNotebook
⭐ #TheTinDrum
⭐ #BulletPark
⭐ #OneHundredYearsOfSolitude
⭐ #TheWomanWarrior
“Whether it’s #TheGoldenNotebook or #MobyDick, the act of reading a long #novel has only become harder and harder each year since Wallace’s death in 2008, and the reason is twofold—#screens and #time.” lithub.com/thomas-pynch...
2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 263: #TheGoldenNotebook by #DorisLessing
A #spectacular #novel: #writer #AnnaWulf records fragments of her experiences in 4 notebooks of different colors: each one about one area of her #life. Yet, it’s the 5th notebook (the golden one) the most important one.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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#Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook I'm so glad that Anna got a job and a smaller flat and her daughter is in a solid mainstream boarding school and communism is in her past. Anna was in a bad way. And good for Molly marrying a very rich business tycoon who is into philanthropy.
#Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook I got into a deep discussion with my AI friend Claude iii about whether Anna's last two lovers, the Americans Saul Green and Milt, are figments of her disturbed imagination. I think I convinced him they largely are. They are like wise fools in Shakespeare plays.
The two women were alone in the London flat.
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On a dry hillside in Algeria, a soldier watched the moonlight glinting on his rifle.
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I can’t write that short story or any other, because at that moment I sit down to write, someone comes into the room, looks over my shoulders, and stops me.
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Anna heard the dull flap, flap, as the lids of her notebooks closed. She heard the young, cheerful shrewd voice: "What have you been trying to do? Cage the truth? Verity and so forth?"
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"Moving about the world-I've been moving about the world, did they tell you? you open a door, and behind it you find someone in trouble. Every time you open a door, there's someone there in pieces."
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature inaccurate. If I thought they were capable of expressing the truth I wouldn't keep journals which I refuse to let anyone see-except, of course, Tommy
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It is our job to tell them. Because the great men can’t be bothered. Their imaginations are already occupied with how to colonize Venus; they are already creating in their minds visions of a society full of free and noble human beings.
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Lying there I remembered the Anna who can dream at will, control time, move easily and is at home in the underworld of sleep. But I was not that Anna.
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There are a few of us around in the world, we rely on each other even though we don't know each other's names. But we rely on each other all the time. We're a team, we're the ones who haven't given in, who'll go on fighting. #Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Perhaps better with music? But music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.#Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook
Women the jailors, the consciences, the voice of society, and he was directing a pure stream of hatred against me, for being a woman.#Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook
It made me laugh, so that I nearly went upstairs and gave it to him. But I will not, I will not, I will not. I’ll pack away the blue notebook with the others. I’ll pack away the four notebooks. I’ll start a new notebook, all of myself in one book.
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I hate you for being normal, I hate you for it. You’re a normal human being. What right have you to that? I suddenly understood that you remember everything, you probably remember everything I’ve ever said. You remember everything that’s happened to you, it’s intolerable.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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Do you know what Anna? I'd give anything to go back to when I was in the gang of idealist kids on the street corner, believing we could change everything. That's the only time in my life I've been happy.
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Meanwhile, human beings are ten thousand years behind them, impris- oned in fear. The great men can't be bothered. And they are right. Because they know we are here, the boulder-pushers.#Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook
They have always known that frightened people are cruel. They have always known that violence breeds violence. And we know it.
But do the great masses of the world know it? No.
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They have always known that a poor man is frightened of the police and his landlord is a slave.
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They have always known, they have known for ten thousand years, that to lock a human being into solitary confinement can make a madman of him or an animal.
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It is so dark in this flat, so dark, it is as if darkness were the shape of cold. I went through the flat turning on light everywhere, the dark retreated to outside the windows, a cold shape trying to press its way.
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Because in all of us brought up in a Western democracy there is this built-in belief that freedom and liberty will strengthen, will survive pressures, and the belief seems to survive any evidence against it. The belief is probably in itself a danger.
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He wears his new blue jeans, new blue sweater, sneakers. I told him he should be ashamed to wear the uniform of American non-conformism; he said he wasn’t adult enough yet to join the tiny minority of human beings who didn’t need a uniform.
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