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From the very first page, Vladimir Nabokov welds his glorious pen and takes the reader on one of the most sumptuous and delicately crafted autobiographies to date. Dipping back into space and time to return to treasured memories and images, he shares recollections of an old world as well as his experiences as a young expatriate determined to capture the very essence of beauty through prose. He describes elusive creatures discovered on butterfly expeditions and the passion of first love with equal precision, which swept me into an illuminated prism of color and texture.
This book is particularly a treasure for those interested in writing, but anyone who would love to escape into a literary all-sensory experience should have this book on their "To Read" list.
If a play can be entered as a favorite book, then I would love to nominate Tracy Lett's August:Osage County into the Puddly Award pool. This hilarious but poignant play about a dysfunctional family on the eve following the loss of a family member is full of knee-slapping, heart-rendering moments that make each page a delight to read. It shocks, amuses and astounds the reader, and is a journey through very different lives bound by the familial common thread. Hopefully most readers will not literally identify with any of the characters, but certainly a less extreme version of each can be found in our own families, neighbors, friends, coworkers, or even ourselves. Abundantly flawed but rich in humanity, these folks tell it like it is, and do not hold back on anything, which is to the reader's divine benefit.
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Everyman's Library #188: Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
juls_h_, January 20, 2010
From the very first page, Vladimir Nabokov welds his glorious pen and takes the reader on one of the most sumptuous and delicately crafted autobiographies to date. Dipping back into space and time to return to treasured memories and images, he shares recollections of an old world as well as his experiences as a young expatriate determined to capture the very essence of beauty through prose. He describes elusive creatures discovered on butterfly expeditions and the passion of first love with equal precision, which swept me into an illuminated prism of color and texture.This book is particularly a treasure for those interested in writing, but anyone who would love to escape into a literary all-sensory experience should have this book on their "To Read" list.
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
juls_h_, January 13, 2010
If a play can be entered as a favorite book, then I would love to nominate Tracy Lett's August:Osage County into the Puddly Award pool. This hilarious but poignant play about a dysfunctional family on the eve following the loss of a family member is full of knee-slapping, heart-rendering moments that make each page a delight to read. It shocks, amuses and astounds the reader, and is a journey through very different lives bound by the familial common thread. Hopefully most readers will not literally identify with any of the characters, but certainly a less extreme version of each can be found in our own families, neighbors, friends, coworkers, or even ourselves. Abundantly flawed but rich in humanity, these folks tell it like it is, and do not hold back on anything, which is to the reader's divine benefit.