![[dr. bob]](/dr-bob-sm.gif)
Dr. Bob is Robert Hsiung, MD,
bob@dr-bob.orgShown: posts 1 to 8 of 8. This is the beginning of the thread.
Posted by Meri-Tuuli on December 7, 2006, at 12:32:22
Has anyone read it? Its very good, not least because Grendel's Den in Cambridge, MA gets a mention, and I've actually been there several times (its a bar). I'm going to read it again this Christmas.
Posted by Quintal on January 4, 2007, at 1:55:06
In reply to The Women's Room, posted by Meri-Tuuli on December 7, 2006, at 12:32:22
>Has anyone read it? Its very good, not least because Grendel's Den in Cambridge, MA gets a mention, and I've actually been there several times (its a bar). I'm going to read it again this Christmas.
No, but the link keeps bringing me to Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'. That inspired me to order all nine of her books - I've been meaning to read Woolf for some time and this has been galvanizing for me (I sense a new obsession coming on). Thank you ;-)
Q
Posted by Meri-Tuuli on January 9, 2007, at 3:54:02
In reply to Virginia Woolf » Meri-Tuuli, posted by Quintal on January 4, 2007, at 1:55:06
Oppps sorry, Q its supposed to be:
I got given a couple of her books at Christmas a few Christmases ago, and I haven't read them yet. I also like Jean Rhys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rhys
I happened by chance upon her too, after seeing a copy lying on a table in the library.
M
Posted by Meri-Tuuli on January 9, 2007, at 3:56:03
In reply to Re: Virginia Woolf, posted by Meri-Tuuli on January 9, 2007, at 3:54:02
> I got given a couple of her books at Christmas a few Christmases ago,
Referring to Woolfe I mean. I haven't read any of her stuff!
M
Posted by Declan on January 24, 2007, at 16:46:29
In reply to Re: Virginia Woolf, posted by Meri-Tuuli on January 9, 2007, at 3:54:02
She is absolutely amazing. I have a special soft spot for "Good Morning Midnight" . We gave our daughter her name in gratitude.
There was a biography of her, "Jean Rhys" by Carol Angier, in which she suggests that most of Rhy's writing was at least in part self therapy.
She is brilliant on alienation, depersonalisation and stuff like that.
The other female witer I loved back then was Anna Kavan, in particular "Julia and the Bazooka".
Posted by Meri-Tuuli on January 27, 2007, at 3:58:12
In reply to Jean Rhys, posted by Declan on January 24, 2007, at 16:46:29
Wow, Declan I've never met anyone who has even heard of her, let alone likes her, let alone named children after her! You're seriously cool.
This Christmas just gone I made my bf watch a film version of 'Wide Sagrosso Sea' that was on TV - it was hard work getting him to appreciate it. He was only watching it to humour me really. Oh well.
But I agree, 'Good Morning Midnight' is my favourite too.
I like to flatter myself that I went through abit of Jean Rhys period in my life - I ran away to London and stayed in youth hostels and hung out with all kinds of people. I certainly felt the things that some of her charactors felt although I think that my experiences don't really live up to that of Sacha's!!
Posted by Declan on January 27, 2007, at 14:28:57
In reply to Re: Jean Rhys, posted by Meri-Tuuli on January 27, 2007, at 3:58:12
Like Oscar Wilde in such hotels, she spent a bit of time engaged with the wallpaper. Watching the wallpaper fade, why is it so ugly etc. She's a revelation, really. She had courage....imagine getting that down. There's noone really like her.
Anna Kavan, who started life as Marjorie Fergusen or something, was a (legal) heroin addict for 30 years up to the middle 60s when she died.
Some of her titles are somewhat overwrought (Machines in the Head, that sort of thing). She'd spent some time when young in Burma, perhaps.
I suppose she's a bit like Kafka on drugs, but not so good. Still, she's OK.
Posted by R. -T. V. 52y on February 27, 2008, at 10:45:35
In reply to Re: Jean Rhys, posted by Meri-Tuuli on January 27, 2007, at 3:58:12
moi m-t
nätti nimi, puhutko suomee?
chris
This is the end of the thread.
Psycho-Babble Books | Extras | FAQ
Dr. Bob is Robert Hsiung, MD,
bob@dr-bob.org
Script revised: February 4, 2008
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/pb/mget.pl
Copyright 2006-17 Robert Hsiung.
Owned and operated by Dr. Bob LLC and not the University of Chicago.