Natalie Morrill Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Natalie Morrill

I have Jane Austen novels (audiobooks) translated into French by different translators. The translator of Pride & Prejudice translated young women being "out" as "dans le monde," & the translator of Mansfield Park translated it as the girls being "sortie."

Natalie Morrill

I have Jane Austen novels (audiobooks) translated into French by different translators. The translator of Pride & Prejudice translated young women being "out" as "dans le monde," & the translator of Mansfield Park translated it as the girls being "sortie."

Natalie Morrill

This week Dad introduces me to Adam Roberts's German-idealist sci-fi: "'The This' is based on Hegel, & 'The Thing Itself' is like the movie 'The Thing' crossed with Kant" So it's as if I never logged off twitter

Natalie Morrill

In Herodotus's Histories, there's a story about how Darius secured his kingship by tricking his horse into neighing, but my friend remembered it as "tricking a donkey into sneezing." Felt like I was watching alternate versions of a myth arise in real time.

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I know it just won Canada Reads & doesn't need my endorsement, but Kate Beaton's Ducks is so good https://t.co/uVGqjbXj89

Natalie Morrill

I feel like Shirley Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House because she loved "The Yellow Wallpaper" but resented the implication that there was not ACTUALLY a creeping woman stuck behind the wallpaper

Natalie Morrill

I have Jane Austen novels (audiobooks) translated into French by different translators. The translator of Pride & Prejudice translated young women being "out" as "dans le monde," & the translator of Mansfield Park translated it as the girls being "sortie."

Natalie Morrill

I would like to do a course/reading group in which we read all the books Helene Hanff orders in 84 Charing Cross Road https://t.co/n4RPdFTZFc

Natalie Morrill

Intriguing philosophical distinction plopped into Busman's Honeymoon (Dorothy Sayers): whether life is fundamentally good, although horrible things keep happening, or fundamentally bleak, though in the midst of it many beautiful things can happen https://t.co/wiTZDoczPZ

Natalie Morrill

@Liamjsm 99 Stories of God by Joy Williams; Abecedary by Goffredo Parise (if you can find it)

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