You know when you reread a book and the main character is doing something awful and you just wish she would do something different than what you know she is going to do? Well, that was me rereading #EdithWharton's #HouseOfMirth. To riff on the end of #Melville's #Bartleby: Ah Lily!, Ah humanity!
I love this book. It's the first time I've read anything by Ottesa Oshfegh. I'm 20 pages short of completion. It was a quick read though I did not like the first chapter and debated going on. Luckily, it got more descriptive, and the narrative voice became unique and interesting. The subject matter is on the darker or grittier side, but the narrative voice is relatable somehow. I don't know if I want to see the movie. I'd want it to live up to the book. 🖤
@MargaretSefton. I'm reading it with a student who is writing a senior thesis on novels about #NYC. The narrator reminded me of #HumbertHumbert; the plot reminded me of #Wharton's #HouseOfMirth (which is actually referenced by Oshfegh, and so I'm rereading that now -- God, what an amazing book!); and some DonDeLillo, too!
#PercivalEverett is AMAZING, and The Trees is devastating. I thought Erasure was fabulous, and it's the book that the #movie#AmericanFiction is based on. I am doing a senior thesis with a student who is interested in #NYC novels so I need to read MYORAR (and reread #Wharton's #HouseOfMirth of course!). Did you like it?
Just saw #houseOfMirth again....you can actually hear #GillianAnderson's voice transitioning into that plummy aristo voice she uses to great effect now.
Was always triggered from the stridency of Scully's tone