tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post7967116978163453851..comments2024-01-02T15:37:04.858-05:00Comments on Caravana de recuerdos: Spanish Lit Month 2016: All July and August LinksRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-51190652047284211892016-09-16T22:52:49.251-04:002016-09-16T22:52:49.251-04:00Ha ha, way to go there, Séamus! Between all this ...Ha ha, way to go there, Séamus! Between all this early modern "handful of clay" reading and your Knocking Shop reunion shows, you've been quite active of late in multiple media. Hats off and all that!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-29865908906599411632016-09-16T22:49:21.380-04:002016-09-16T22:49:21.380-04:00Belated thanks for the links, Joe; they've now...Belated thanks for the links, Joe; they've now been added to the list. I have another book of Teixidor's, the 1999 <em>El Llibre de les mosques</em>, that's been waiting to be read for several years now, but I keep putting it off because my Catalan reading skills have atrophied a bit. Hopefully your review will help inspire me to get with the program again!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-6450600088170788282016-09-14T18:34:03.258-04:002016-09-14T18:34:03.258-04:00I did follow it with The Swindler which was in my ...I did follow it with The Swindler which was in my Penguin twofer. I then moved on to Lope de Vega and read three plays. I'm slowly throwing a few handfuls of clay into some of my chasms of ignorance. Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-16846936304237407652016-09-12T00:54:03.568-04:002016-09-12T00:54:03.568-04:00My review of Black Bread by Emili Teixidor is now ...My review of Black Bread by Emili Teixidor is now live at Numéro Cinq:<br />http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/09/11/coming-age-post-war-catalonia-review-black-bread-emili-teixidor-joseph-schreiber/<br />They have also run an excerpt I selected:<br />http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/09/11/black-bread-novel-excerpt-emili-teixidor/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07832272591627222078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-61592836230697837142016-09-09T12:52:11.554-04:002016-09-09T12:52:11.554-04:00Séamus, glad you enjoyed the list and the question...Séamus, glad you enjoyed the list and the questionnaires. You're next in line if I ever do that again, so please get your answers ready for next year! Delighted to hear you're enjoying <em>Lazarillo de Tormes</em> (one of my all-time favorites). If you follow that up with Quevedo's <em>El buscón</em> (a/k/a <em>The Swindler</em>), you will be in for another classic picaresque good time. Thanks so much for participating in SLM this year: Bolaño and Aira, a hard combination to beat!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-15022581941544352272016-09-09T12:46:53.199-04:002016-09-09T12:46:53.199-04:00Muito obrigado for the visit, Miguel! Nice to hea...<em>Muito obrigado</em> for the visit, Miguel! Nice to hear from you and I haven't forgotten about the e-mail I owe you. Yeah, people went nuts this year. I still missed a Borges post or two from you, though, so this visit from you helps make up for it.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-82340827504943771682016-09-09T12:43:29.536-04:002016-09-09T12:43:29.536-04:00Glad you enjoyed Spanish Lit Month, Nana. We'...Glad you enjoyed Spanish Lit Month, Nana. We'd love to have you read along with us in July & August next year if you're still up for it! Hope you're enjoying <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>. I've never been able to get into that book for some reason even though I've enjoyed some of García Márquez's so called "lesser works." The irony of it all. Cheers!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-89383684884598248612016-09-08T16:27:55.179-04:002016-09-08T16:27:55.179-04:00What a list. I like the meet the readers questionn...What a list. I like the meet the readers questionnaires too. And two great bloggers to select. Although I have as yet failed to write anything about it I have been dipping my toes in the "body of medieval and early modern Spanish literature" that Tom recommends and have been enjoying it immensely, especially the early picaresque novel "Lazarillo De Tormes". Maybe I'll get around to writing something for SLM17. Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-66855900635045833732016-09-07T19:27:30.132-04:002016-09-07T19:27:30.132-04:00My God, what an avalanche of links! Spanish Lit Mo...My God, what an avalanche of links! Spanish Lit Month wasn't <i>this</i> popular in my days!Miguelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-91004432498190350522016-09-07T10:10:36.210-04:002016-09-07T10:10:36.210-04:00This was interesting. I will participate any time ...This was interesting. I will participate any time you have it again. I am currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude.ImageNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06021414643103601330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-51215320107835630122016-09-07T00:34:35.137-04:002016-09-07T00:34:35.137-04:00Rise, thanks to you as well both for your engaging...Rise, thanks to you as well both for your engaging posts and for fielding those long ago questions about your Spanish-language literature experiences. I hadn't originally intended for anybody's answers to run side by side, but I really liked how yours and Tom's complemented each other's in the end. It is very satisfying, by the way, to hear a lifetime SLM participant such as you saying that you're already anticipating SLM 2017. That means a lot to me. Thank you!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-69264672977058376542016-09-07T00:24:40.344-04:002016-09-07T00:24:40.344-04:00I spent a semester reading DQ one school year, and...I spent a semester reading <em>DQ</em> one school year, and we didn't even really make it to the end of Part I. What a fun semester. Sorry I missed the grad seminar on Don Quixote's library. That promised even more bookish delights.<br /><br />I was tickled that you and Rise chose Borges books as faves even as I was a little surprised that Georgie didn't appear on any reading lists other than Rise's this year. Maybe he'll make a comeback during Doom. In any event, thanks again for all the juicy posts and for putting up with those meet the reader questions I put to you last year. You and Rise make a mean tag team!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-91628882005843220012016-09-07T00:12:34.377-04:002016-09-07T00:12:34.377-04:00I'm sure I can speak for Stu in saying the ple...I'm sure I can speak for Stu in saying the pleasure was all ours, Jacqui, so thanks to you in turn for your book and wine reviews. It's a treat to have such enthusiastic and liquored-up readers! I actually know many other avid readers who, like you, have yet to read <em>Don Quixote</em>. Suffice it to say that you have a massive treat in store--two if you consider <em>DQ</em> I & II as separate reads--once you break the ice with Cervantes. I'm do for a reread of the book(s) myself.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-16874861275205486872016-09-07T00:03:03.796-04:002016-09-07T00:03:03.796-04:00Hi and many thanks for the reminder, Joe. I'l...Hi and many thanks for the reminder, Joe. I'll look forward to reading that review once it's made public. It was great to have you join us for Spanish Lit Month this year.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-89829639472017068452016-09-06T23:21:55.936-04:002016-09-06T23:21:55.936-04:00Congrats to you and Stu for another successful run...Congrats to you and Stu for another successful run of the Spanish lit month, Richard. The length of the list says it all. Is it way too early to anticipate the next SLM? It <i>is</i> highly anticipated.<br /><br />I was glad to rediscover the Q & A. As Tom noted, there's a logical chain to the reading. No matter the sequence of books or the table of contents.<br />Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-56064745055631593262016-09-06T10:50:53.473-04:002016-09-06T10:50:53.473-04:00Thinking globally, almost no one has read Don Quix...Thinking globally, almost no one has read <i>Don Quixote</i>, really.<br /><br />What a pile of books. How exciting that Rise and I chose more or less the same Borges, but rearranged. I do not really remember writing any of those answers, but they sound like me.<br /><br />Maybe I can take one small step in rectifying the crime Rise identifies.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-6930210285273969842016-09-06T09:02:07.465-04:002016-09-06T09:02:07.465-04:00What a bumper round-up of Spanish lit links! Thank...What a bumper round-up of Spanish lit links! Thanks so much to you and Stu for hosting this event, always a pleasure to participate and to see what others have been reading. I enjoyed your meet-the-readers feature too. All the best, Jacqui.<br /><br />PS Would now be a good time to confess that I have never read Don Quixote? JacquiWinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16220597283351925721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-58003706676018963082016-09-06T01:07:20.836-04:002016-09-06T01:07:20.836-04:00Hi Richard! Just a reminder, I will have one more ...Hi Richard! Just a reminder, I will have one more review (read and written in July/August) That will go "live" at a magazine called Numéro Cinq within the next week. It's for the Catalan novel Black Bread. I'll send you the link as soon as it's published. A great book.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07832272591627222078noreply@blogger.com