Egy év (hangos esszé)
A boldogság nem életed első három évén múlik.
Nem is a téged érő sorscsapásokon.
Egy év
A szakĂtás a legrondább halál.
Up next / Wuthering Heights
Was Ernest Hemingway secretly a romantic?
Joseph Conrad : Victory
"Whatever you do, read Conrad's latest -- Victory. Read it, if you have to pawn your watch to buy it. Conrad has exceeded himself. I am glad that I am alive, if, for no other reason, because of the joy of reading this book." Jack London, 1915
Up next / Joseph Conrad: Victory
"I’ve never written one [novel] without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing." (Joan Didion)
The Brothers Karamazov
"I've been wondering about Dostoevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?" (Ernest Hemingway)
Up Next / The Brothers Karamazov
When I picked up The Brothers Karamazov a couple of months ago I couldn't have been more positively biased towards it. Maybe that was what went wrong.
A Way of Man (Miehen Tie) - a Nobel-winning work that doesn't exist in English
Frans Eemil Sillanpää might well be one of the least known best storytellers in history.
Lecke feladva
Miről beszélget édesanya és édesapa hatéves gyerekük iskolai felvételije alatt?
Up Next / A Way of Man
A thrown out book from Finland whose author I've never heard of but received the Nobel Prize - things that make me want to read a book.
Louisa May Alcott's Bookshelf
Louisa May Alcott's Reading List for Little and Not So Little Women: 25 Books of the Best of the Old Writers
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Louisa May Alcott and my beloved grandmother had one crucial thing in common.
Why do you read THAT book? (Little Women)
"Don't you want to be inspired by the zeitgeist and read Little Women?"
A korona vĂrus Ĺ‘sze
(amit a kĂ©tezer-hĂşszas világjárvány idejĂ©n, BrazĂliában tanultam)
"Nálunk nincsen tél. Sosem voltunk olyan helyzetben, hogy előre fel kellett volna készülnünk a hidegre, egy közelgő vészhelyzetre, hogy be kellett volna spájzolnunk fát és élelmet."
Why Hemingway? - the ONE reason to read Ernest Hemingway's favorite books
Why read the favorite books of Ernest Hemingway?
Day 12: The Curious Experience of Accidental Rereading
I had read more Sillanpaa books than I remembered.
Day 11: Notes From a Writer's Notebook
Good stories only need a few intriguing questions. Including our own life story.
Day 9: Still Going Dark
People who miss deadlines have a lot in common with people who cheat on their partners. They do it again and again.
Day 7-8: So Much About Plans
I want to record every single day to see what I payed my attention to instead of my stated dream: writing a novel.
Day 6: Addiction
I wonder if other people are on drugs too.
Day 5: The Ten Pages I Read
I won't give "reviews" of the books I read. I don't care about opinions on art anymore.
Day 4: Tudo Bem
"It doesn't matter what you do. What matters is how others perceive you."
Day 3.
Spent the day with family in the Zoo.
Day 1: The Start of Two Challenges
Winter time this Cinderella-village turns into a ghost village: only a few old souls stay in it. It is also in this village where my heroine dies. And that's when my story starts.
The Hemingway-Challenge
“If you haven’t read these, you just aren’t educated.”