Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook Twitter profile

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

5 years

@ConnieSchultz The part not named is when children won’t take any food rather than risk the embarrassment of that sandwich. They go hungry. And learning and self regulation becomes difficult in addition to the rest of the trauma here.

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6 months

Well. This was an amazing experience. That I want to have again. Seems that more than a few that followed Rulfo are in his debt. I had no idea. But I love being surprised. Why haven’t we all read this?

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Frances Evangelista

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2 years

Every year, I think I’m going to read more nonfiction. And every year, it amounts to a small fraction of my reading life. Tell me your favorite works of nonfiction? I’m going to try again.

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Frances Evangelista

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8 months

Loving all these top 10 favorite books by men lists floating around this weekend. I’ve seen some people get confused and add one or two women in the mix by mistake though.

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Frances Evangelista

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6 months

A tall stack of books that brought me joy in 2023. Absent from the party but should be here is The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker. I enthusiastically gave my copy to another reader. Wishing you all a wonderful year ahead, filled with every happiness, bookish and otherwise. ❤️

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Frances Evangelista

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5 months

When I saw the International Booker dates drop yesterday, I began assembling a stack of possibilities that I have at hand. But my favorite part about the longlist are the surprises, the things I might not have read if they hadn’t been included. This is an impressive stack though.

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Frances Evangelista

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1 month

My daughter called me this morning from Tokyo to tell me that she discovered her hotel is in “the book neighborhood.” Extended exploration happened. So proud that that’s my child.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

Seems like the right time to start this. I’ve had it for a while. Anyone read it?

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

Inspired by ⁦ @mookse ⁩, I’m dusting off this stack tonight and thinking about actually reading these in the new year. Moving beyond years of good intentions.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Here is what I happily read in February. That week off from work was a real gift. Made it possible to enjoy more books than I thought I would after a good chunk of time was spent on The Books of Jacob.

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Frances Evangelista

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6 months

Happy New Year! Starting Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, translated from the Spanish by Douglas J. Weatherford. First book of the year. For newly formed novella book club. And because Sontag called it “one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature.”

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

I bought a few books today. And had a good conversation. What more could one want?

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

7 months

Seems like a good time to revisit these. As Penelope Lively said, “Byatt’s stories display all her talents as a novelist, but spiced with an additional friskiness.”

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Frances Evangelista

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6 months

Just six of us tonight. Getting ready to eat. There are six wrapped books on the table for after dinner. No name tags. Open a random book and decide if it was meant for you. Swap until all is right. Then read to your heart’s content. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!🎄

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

I think I’m going to visit with Iris Murdoch in the new year. See where the work takes me. Starting with Under the Net, her first novel. 1954. About Jake, “clever and lazy,” who “makes a living out of writing translations and sponging off his friends.”

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

The best from an incredible reading year. And the best of the best? Cursed Bunny and The English Understand Wool. Don’t even need to think about it. I’ve probably forgotten something here but just looking at this stack makes me happy.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

If only my family understood that it is *not* necessary to put away current, recently read, and gift books before the spirit moves you.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

Looking ahead to the new year, I will find a copy of this edition in 2024. 👀

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Sometimes a little free library will give you @nyrbclassics titles you don’t have.

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Frances Evangelista

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26 days

There’s always something that stops the dusting, the reshelving. I’ve read them but I’m tempted to reread them now.

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Frances Evangelista

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2 months

I was obsessed with The Once and Future King as a kid, and still read it every year. Many editions live in this house but the 2003 @foliosociety edition has eluded me. I’d find a copy and it would be too pricey, too damaged, etc. My daughter brought me a perfect copy today. ❤️❤️

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Frances Evangelista

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8 months

It’s chilly and rainy so I went to a used bookstore. As one does.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

4 years

I started tucking a few books into this previously empty chest a few months ago. Just the newly acquired that I planned to read as soon as possible. There are now almost 80 books in here.

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Frances Evangelista

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3 years

What a month! Here’s what I read in October. And to all still looking for a copy of Darconville’s Cat, keep looking. So worth the search. And your money.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

Two or three years ago, I “cleaned up” all of the books in my bedroom that I had finished reading by stacking them like this on top of a dresser. They are still there. I just dusted them. The irony of the housekeeping book there has not escaped me.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

Just finished We the Parasites and On Women. Both fantastic! Don’t know what I’m reading later today or this weekend but most likely will choose from here. Any you particularly recommend?

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

It’s time. I had to dust them off. But La Fortune des Rougon is finally calling me. Oddly giddy with excitement. I might just stare at the first for a little while.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

4 months

Read in February. Finished everything on the right. The left stack is in progress for #KateBriggs24 . The volume of reading being a result of limiting my phone and social media usage I think. Inordinate cravings still. But more time reading brings me greater satisfaction.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Here’s what I read in October. The @NewDirections storybook from Helen DeWitt takes the prize for my favorite followed closely by the Shirley Hazzard bio coming shortly from @fsgbooks .

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

9 months

Thinking today might be a busy day not just for Fitzcarraldo but for @transitbooks as well. Happy for them both.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

My daughter rescued books in the wild that she thought I might like. Two things I have but not in those editions, and now there is a copy of Lonesome Dove about should I cave to all the Book Twitter pressure to read it. And that @nyrbclassics one is new to me so that’s exciting.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

A month of reading from someone who is not a fan of the heat. So in July, I mostly stayed inside and enjoyed a few from @archipelagobks , entertained a sudden Wharton fixation, read the usual mysteries, and just finished a reread of A Lost Lady to discuss with @bibliopaul @mookse

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Almost forgot. Here’s what I read in November. Plus Suspended Sentences by Modiano. Enjoyed Modiano mini-immersion immensely and mean to keep reading his work. Bambi left quite a mark on me. And Trust was a great surprise. I was listening to the wrong half of a divided audience.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

Everyone’s reading plans for the new year set me to thinking about what I might like to attempt. I’ve only read two by Murdoch, so long ago I scarcely remember them. Have these plus more of the Vintage red spines. Somewhere. Read all? What order? I think @TJHogglestock can help.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Read in August. Not pictured, because I cannot find them, are Summer by Edith Wharton and Violets by Kyung-sook Shin, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur. One of those happy months where I loved everything I read.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

5 months

Through the mail slot yesterday. The Skin of Dreams by Raymond Queneau, translated from the French by Chris Clarke. This “novel of waking dreams” is one of my most anticipated books of the year.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Less time here this weekend because…

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 months

Three nice people took me out for bubbly brunch and then bought me books on my birthday eve. Life is good.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Don’t we all read like fiends the week between Christmas and the new year? How could I possibly name my favorite books of the year now with one of the best reading weeks of the year still ahead of me? I can’t, friends. I just can’t.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

I would have read even more in January if it had snowed. I’m sure many of you understand. Feeling good about the choice to read a lot by and about Iris Murdoch this year (she declares after just one month and two books).

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

11 months

Rereading a book with so many unread around me makes perfect sense sometimes. You crave what you crave. For all you Rebecca by du Maurier fans, have you read this one?

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

7 months

I have an old chest in my sitting room. The chest is nothing fancy, vaguely ratty. My toy chest as a child. As I finish books, I tuck them in the chest to shelf later. I’ve been negligent about this for months. And moved piles elsewhere. Now staring at quite a task. Wish me luck?

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Here’s what I read in April. The mystery on top is still in progress but I will finish it by the end of the day. As is my #SaturdayMystery habit. The Tsushima reading for @pod_bright was the highlight of the month. Hoping to see more of her work in English translation.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

And a holiday season filled with murder and other great distractions. I feel like I’m getting carried away with book stack photos lately, but here is what I read in December.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

The usual story. Day off. Running errands. Found myself close to a bookstore. Bought books.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 months

Great novella book club conversation today. And now the opportunity to consider this gem at our next meeting. I adore this book. I’ve read it 4X since 2016 according to my reading logs.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

Wow. This is not only the best of voyeuristic fun but a fascinating examination of the nature of work.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

My son and I hit the little free library trail today with two big boxes of books. We use the map on the LFL site, straighten the libraries as we go, and leave some good books behind. 9 visits today. Then we get a milkshake.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 months

Thanks to @iprimaa , I just saw that the cover art is up for the upcoming The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington. And read this book description! (drools a little, nothing so obvious as to disgust)

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

I’ve been talking for years about owning every English translation of Modiano but having read none. Reading all the “if Twitter implodes” stories makes me think of this for some reason. So I’m going to make a start. Which Modiano to begin? (I have more than in the photo.)

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Read in September. Beginning October reading a mystery on a dark and stormy day with, unusually, not a single commitment in front of me today. Life is good.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Through the mail slot today. Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt, introduction by Lauren Groff. “… about calming the demons that pursue women who seek their own way.” @nyrbclassics

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Just finished the last of my in-progress books. Starting The Books of Jacob, so I can safely say that these are all my January books. My favorites from the month were Monument Maker and Cursed Bunny. But there is not a disappointment in this stack.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 months

Hello, beautiful.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Through the mail slot today. Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Julian Semilian. A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray by Dominique Barbéris, translated by John Cullen. Both purchases inspired by you lovely book nerds.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

A Lost Interview with Clarice Lispector “The longest and most wide-ranging interview that the great Brazilian author gave, here translated and published for the first time.”

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Snuck away from the family for a moment to share my Santa book stack. Very happy with it and my new Moomin. I even got a US copy of O Caledonia with that amazing cover art. I’d love to see your holiday books too.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

I’m only halfway through the Barthes biography but here is what I (almost) finished reading in November.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

5 years

Done! Without question one of my best reading experiences. While I couldn’t keep pace with that original goal of one per month, reading the last four all in a row was a riveting, immersive experience that will stay with me.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

Through the front door yesterday. The new English translation of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Edward Snow.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

One of the most liberating and engaging books I’ve read in ages. Finishing today. Or maybe tomorrow. Not ready to leave it.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Here are the lovely books I read in May. I enjoyed them all at different levels, but Elspeth Barker’s O Caledonia wins the shiny medal for best of the month. Without question. Wow. Just wow.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 month

Noted all of your Munro recommendations this week. I’ve only read a handful of her short stories but knew I owned more than I’ve read. Unearthed these so far. I will pick a few for summer soon.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

My youngest turned 21 today. And everyone in this family gets a new stack for their big day. Here’s what he chose.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

The next steps in my winter reading plan. Completely swept away by Under the Net, and enjoying the bio by Conradi.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

5 months

My school district just announced snow day closure for tomorrow. The only logical response is to grab a glass of wine and a new book. Starting The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

Santa apparently loves me AND @McNallyEditions ! This is such an awesome gift! Love that my family scrolled through my Twitter account and saw that I wanted to read these editions. ❤️

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 months

Through the front door today. The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys. Anthony @timesflow mentioned it the other day, and I was instantly drawn to it. At the top of the summer possibilities…

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Made a used bookstore run after an appointment this afternoon. Wonderful way to begin the long weekend.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Starting my birthday right with a healthy breakfast and some celebratory flowers.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

5 years

@Dangchick1 The professor on Gilligan’s Island.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

Committed to reading more Japanese literature this year, I’ve started a small stack of things already on the shelves. This seems adequate to start. Recommendations welcome. #JanuaryinJapan #JapaneseLitChallenge14

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

Through the mail slot today. All my Monday ills were just cured by this choice book mail from @archipelagobks .

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Here’s what I read in June. I also enjoyed two more Blake mysteries but I can’t find them to show you. And I’m currently disinclined to search. Lolly Willowes was the best of the stack. Bloomsbury’s Outsider was wonderful entertainment. Gossipy and erudite in one thick book. Yum.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

4 months

Sorting some of my books by publisher. I started pulling NYRB titles from shelves today. This is a very significant number of books, friends. And slow going as I keep finding books that I still want to read like Pedigree by Georges Simenon. Who’s read it?

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

4 months

I saw nuns out walking on my way home.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 months

Five read, settling into the #InternationalBooker2024 longlist. Still shaking my head at the omission of some, especially Énard/Wynne, still missing that magical list from two years ago. But there are good things here. Now to pick my next book…

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

I’ve now reached the “I was an English major in the late 80s” section of dusting.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

5 months

The right stack is books I finished in January. The left stack is my project pile for #KateBriggs24 . There’s a lot of wow here. So much so that I hate to lift one or two above the others.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

“When I talked he listened most intently to every word I said, as if it was very precious. This had never happened to me before, and gave me great confidence in myself, but now I know from experience a lot of men listen like that, and it doesn’t mean a thing.” #NYRBWomen23

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 months

Read in March. Today I’m floundering through three others, and it seems unlikely I’ll finish anything else. Plenty of good but Alphabetical Diaries and American Originality are the standouts.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

Read or reread in May. Far less screen time this month as I enjoyed the stack on the right and reread from the left for #InternationalBooker2021 shadow panel fun. Obviously that is our shortlist, not the official one. What a great reading month!

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Through the mail slot today. Written Lives by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. Still filling in the gaps in the collection.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Had some new inspiration to take this off the shelf today. Hermione Lee’s Edith Wharton bio. This should be good.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

1 year

Through the mail slot today. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, in a translation from the French that I’ve been very curious about. Will I read Swann’s Way yet again just to check out James Grieve’s translation? Yes. Yes, I will. Out on May 23.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

5 months

Paint your own portrait. Swim in the ridiculous. Spin the fortune of others. This was a playful delight. But huge shoutout to translator Chris Clarke. I could have this all wrong but it seems like it would have been a bear to translate.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

7 months

Starting Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

4 years

Here are the shelves in my dining room. On the bottom right, you can see my pelican, Percival, peeking out. Under the case on the right, you can see my backgammon board. I have had this particular board over thirty years. #ShowUsYourShelves

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Frances Evangelista

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2 years

Thanks to lots of great Modiano advice yesterday, I chose to start here, reserving the best for next to last, the worst for last. Planning to live with Modiano for a while.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

Today’s the day I finish this one. #FridayReads

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 years

What’s a birthday without book shopping? A very sad day, friends. That’s what it is. My youngest and I just visited @SSBrockville for a few big day treats.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

6 months

An uncommonly good “through the mail slot today” day.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

9 months

Through the mail slot today. A Shining by Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 months

My daughter came by this weekend with not only her lovely self but also a gift. She saw it at a used bookstore and suspected that I would like it. She was correct. One Art: Elizabeth Bishop Letters selected and edited by Robert Giroux.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

2 months

Novella book club tomorrow. Time to read the book.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

Escapist that I am, I read a large number of books in 2020. So many great and varied books that it seems silly to attempt to rank them. Instead, here are some reading highlights.

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Frances Evangelista

@nonsuchbook

3 years

Read in January. There is all sorts of wonderful in this stack, but my favorite was The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. Highly recommended to all who prefer thoughts about aging, feminism, genre and other topics not trimmed up into neat packages. Refreshing,imaginative.

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Frances Evangelista

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3 years

New Moomins! To sit proudly beside old and ratty copies. And lots of other great choices too. I feel extra motivated to make them all a delicious breakfast now.