digitalcourage.social

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Stan Carey"Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost" —Colm Tóibín, The Master<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ColmT%C3%B3ib%C3%ADn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColmTóibín</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HenryJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HenryJames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memory</a>

Stan Carey"When everyone else had fire in their blood, he was calm. So calm that he could neither read nor think, merely bask in the freedom that the afternoon offered, savour, as deeply as he could, this quiet and strange treachery, his own surreptitious withdrawal from the world." —Colm Tóibín, The Master<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ColmT%C3%B3ib%C3%ADn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColmTóibín</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HenryJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HenryJames</a>

Stan CareyThis was on the unread shelf too long, but the wait was worth it. It's uncommonly good.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ColmT%C3%B3ib%C3%ADn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColmTóibín</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HenryJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HenryJames</a>

searchpartyDie <a href="https://flipboard.com/@ZEITONLINE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ZEITONLINE</a> sieht das Ende eher positiv.<a href="https://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2024-07/long-island-colm-toibin-irland-migration-usa-roman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2024-07/long-island-colm-toibin-irland-migration-usa-roman</a>Warum bin ich so unzufrieden mit dem Ende, wo ich‘s doch bei Filmen wirklich mag und elegant finde, wenn sie in einem Schwebezustand enden? Liegt es daran, dass ich mich zwei Monate lang durch dieses Buch gekämpft habe und am Ende nicht mal ein Ende dafür bekomme?<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LongIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LongIsland</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ColmToibin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColmToibin</a>

the roamer"The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening. At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered."Colm Tóibín on his experience of the fire in Los Angeles, and reflecting on its random cultural destuction. The Thomas Mann House intact, Gary Indiana's personal library, just tranferred from New York, lost. <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/colm-toibin/in-la" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/colm-toibin/in-la</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ColmToibin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColmToibin</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LosAngelesFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngelesFire</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThomasMann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasMann</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GaryIndiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GaryIndiana</a>

GesineSchulzColm Tóibín: How Can We Tell Our Own Stories? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeX8kT-0nBg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeX8kT-0nBg</a><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/ColmToib%C3%ADn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColmToibín</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/IrishBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishBooks</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Literatur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Literatur</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Irland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Irland</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/schreiben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schreiben</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#colmtoibin