May 2010
5 posts
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“You don’t look for no sense when lightnin’ kills a cow, or it comes...”
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“there ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There is just stuff people do.”
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“Before I knowed it, I was sayin’ out loud, ‘The hell with it! There...”
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Week 11
Aslıhan : The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Hazal : Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Bede Johnson
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“Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had...”
– aldous huxley-brave new world
April 2010
17 posts
“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.”
– John Berger - Ways of Seeing
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“Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches.
A...”
– brave new world-aldous huxley
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“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of...”
– aldous huxley-brave new world
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“Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing...”
– a brave new world- aldous huxley
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Week 10
Aslıhan : Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Hazal : Ways of Seeing by John Berger
“Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They...”
– Haruki Murakami
Kafka (and Oshima) will always have a special place in my bookcase. One of the best books I’ve ever read.
“Listen every object’s in flux. The earth, time concepts, love, life,...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the shore)
Kafka on the shore
You sit at the edge of the world,
I am in a crater that’s no more.
Words without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.
The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.
Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,
Thinking for the pendulum that moves the world, it seems.
When your heart is...
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the shore)
“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung...”
– Haruki Murakami
“Nakata let his body relax, switched off his mind, allowing things to flow...”
– Haruki Murakami
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
– Haruki Murakami
“According to Aristophanes in Plato’s The Banquet, in the ancient world of...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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Week 9
Aslıhan: The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
Hazal: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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I have finished tim parks’ destiny.the reason i chose this book was another great work of tim parks,europa.it led me to destiny.tim parks chooses a technique something like stream of consciousness though not that scattered.the sentences are long -like a half a page or so sometimes- but you never have difficulty to understand the storyline.basically,in destiny,the story is about chris burton...
“He’s very clumsy, that boy” the girl said.
“He can be. He...”
– “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
March 2010
10 posts
1 tag
Week 8
Aslıhan : Destiny by Tim Parks
Hazal: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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paddy clarke ha ha ha-roddy doyle
this week’s book was Paddy Clarke ha ha ha of Roddy Doyle.it wasn’t, actually, one of the books that has been sitting around my bookshelf for ages.I coincided this book a couple of weeks ago,it’s one of the books of vintage’s booker series edition.the story evolves around a 10 year old Irish boy Paddy back in 60’s,the entertaining part is he is the narrator and while...
“The poet Victor Valoff was not a very good poet. He had a local reputation, was...”
– Charles Bukowski - Scum Grief
“That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble -leisure...”
– Charles Bukowski - 900 Pounds
“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you...”
– Charles Bukowski - Strokes to nowhere
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Week 7
Aslıhan: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Hazal: Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski
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ağaca tüneyen baron
bu haftaki kitabım italo calvino’nun Atalarımız üçlemesinin ikinci kitabı ağaca tüneyen baron’du.17.yy’Da Cosimo’nun ebeveyn baskısına tepki olarak bir gün herşeyi bırakıp ağaçlarda yaşamayı seçmesinin öyküsü.kitap maria enrica agostinelli tarafından resimlendirimiş.hemen hemen her bölümde bir tane resim var, zaten çok sevimli bulduğum cosimo’nun hikayesini bence daha...
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Week 6
Aslıhan : Ağaca Tüneyen Baron - Italo Calvino
Hazal : Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
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ikiye bölünen vikont
italo calvino’nun “atalarimiz” uclemesinin ilk kitabi ,rekin tekinsoy cevirisi, emanuele luzatti illustrasyonlariyla “ikiye bolunen vikont’u okudum bu hafta. hikayede avusturyalılarla türkler arasındaki bir savaşa katılan Terralbalı Vikont Medaryo’yu, bir gülle ortadan ikiye bölüverince,vikont artık yarım bir insan olarak dönüyor ülkesine. vikont fiziksel olarak...
February 2010
27 posts
Tori Amos - Graveyard
Neil Gaiman references...
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Week 5
Aslıhan : İkiye Bölünen Vikont by Italo Calvino
Hazal: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
“Alexandra Parkı’ndaki gölette yaşayan bir ördek olsaydım keşke. O zaman...”
– Duncan Thaw - Lanark
Lanark
Lanark was the second best book I’ve ever read. Worth reading for 2 weeks, ruining the reading schedule.
Lanark is an unusual book, employing techniques seldom used by other authors, although parallels have been drawn with literary greats such as Dante and Blake. There are four books in this volume which are sequenced book three, one, two and four, and they must be read in this order. The...
“Lanark utanmış gibi görünmemeye çalıştı, şaşkın görünmeyi becerdi.”
– Lanark
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-challenging the complacency and prosperity of postwar america hadn’t been Kerouac’s intent when he wrote his novel,but he had created a book that created a change of consciousness in the country. As William Burroughs realized, ‘After 1957 on the road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. This was of course due in...
“…there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic...”
– Alasdair Gray
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Week 4
Aslıhan: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Hazal: Lanark: A Life in 4 Books by Alasdair Gray
“As for kokoro
There are no words
that can define
but it can be brushed...”
– Ikkyu - A Waka about the word “kokoro”, which means both “heart” and “mind”.
“It is sometimes felt in Europe and America that so-called functional objects are...”
– Stephen Addiss - How to look at Japanese Art
Korkma ben varım
bu haftaki kitabım korkma ben varım’dı.kitabı okurken, kıpır kıpır bir kurgu üzerine oturtulmuş, fıkır fıkır karakterleriyle,bir de satır başı, üzerine düşünülesi,aforizmalar fırtınasında buldum kendimi. hem gülüp hem heyecanlanırken bir de aforizmalar üzerine düşünmeye kalkınca kitabın sonunda tatlı bir yorgunluk oluştu hani böyle konser ve ya maç sonrası olan cinsten ( maça da bi...
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