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[myclutteredbookshelf]

Joined a friend yesterday at a warehouse sale where you could fill a bag with books for $10. Here’s my portion of the haul.

#solomon gursky was here #mordecai richler #the book of negroes #lawrence hill #wuthering heights #emily bronte #flowers in the attic #v.c. andrews #books

[murderballadeer]

i’m obsessed with this book it has everything: jews, communism, depressed middle-aged men, the franklin expedition, bootleggers, montreal...

#solomon gursky was here #soapbox #lit

[snapbookreviews]

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

Descended from an unknown #FranklinExpedition survivor, Solomon Gursky is a mystery intentionally obscured and a source of obsession for Moses Berger in #MordecaiRichler's 1989 novel, "Solomon Gursky Was Here" from @VikingBooks

“Solomon Gursky” is an unexpectedly weird book, but one I would highly recommend to anyone with a taste for unique Franklin expedition fiction. As a novel, “Solomon Gursky” is part Franklin mystery, part Jewish family drama, and part critique of capitalist dynasty families. A lot of effort has been put into portraying the expedition accurately — Richler cites “Frozen in Time” by Owen Beattie as a…

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[tuesdaytothursday]

not sure how I’ll ultimately feel about Mordecai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here but overall, at about three-quarters through, I have enjoyed it

#solomon gursky #solomon gursky was here #mordecai richler #a lot of solid dialog #a lot of slow setup that is now paying off in weirdly satisfying ways #several unfortunate slurs which I am keeping track of in case someone wants to read and avoid or brace for them #this is the 2nd book I’ve read this year that oddly reminds me of 100YOS (appropriate since SGWH has a 100YOS reference) #the other was The Time Regulation Insitute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar #both TTRI and SGWH feel like 100YOS in the ways they loop or repeat or navigate time #TTRI also feels like it 100YOS in that both stories are clearly written how the authors grew up being told stories #SGWH has a similar scope to 100YOS

[johntorrington]

i finished dead reckoning

#if anyone knows any good books about scott let me know. i wanna learn more antarctic stuff #(circus music starts) #🗺️

[ulrichgebert]

Mordecai Richlers unglaublicher, ausladender und ganz besonders unterhaltsamer jüdisch-kanadischer Familien,-Schelmen,-Verbrecher-und-Versager-Roman Solomon Gursky Was Here ist auch eines der großen Bücher meines Lebens. Er sollte viel, viel bekannter sein, und alle die ihn lesen, weil ich ihn ihnen empfohlen habe, sind sehr dankbar. Zu denen können jetzt auch Sie gehören.  Ich erwähne das, obwohl der bewährte “Buch Gelesen”- Eintrag eigentlich noch nicht fällig wäre, damit ich den nächsten Film mit den Worten “Wo es gerade so schön war mit Mordecai Richler” beginnen kann

#Buch gelesen #Solomon Gursky Was Here #Mordecai Richler

[tediousreviews]

Asimov’s Science Fiction (June 1998)

There's a good chance I'll skip next week. Work's being unpleasantly unpredictable with one of our larger rountine unpleasantnesses.

Anyway, Asimov's. One Novella, three novelettes, and two short stories.

Novella

The Days of Solomon Gursky, Ian McDonald

Immortality is a crapshoot. And since traditional suicide would be immoral, it's apparently necessary to destroy and recreate the universe just to prevent yourself from becoming immortal.

I'm not trying to turn this into a right to die screed, but I don't see the second option as any different from suicide.

Novelettes

Lovestory, James Patrick Kelly

Not all species have binary sexual reproduction. But because of poor imagination, most SF authors that go for non-binary reproduction seem to like the two genetic donors, one incubator model. Which, honestly seems odd to me. And to one of the aliens in this story who decided to study biology with human help.

We don't get to see the aftermath here, but I imagine 'stay together for the kids' isn't any happier of a decision here than it is in real life.

The Moon Girl, M. Shayne Bell

Recently uncovered documents tell the story of a british man in Niger who helped a very visibly alien woman escape from the Sultan's harem.

Honestly I didn't find this one very engaging, and the part where the british man digresses about how ugly the Sultan's wives are when he peeps on them bathing didn't help anything.

Red, Sarah Clemens

A white girl visiting her older relatives in the American South learns about her werewolf great-to-the-nth aunt, and helps her find peace, with the help of a couple members of the black family that's taken care of her family for generations.

Is suicide the hidden theme this issue?

Short Stories

17, Paul J. McAuley

Crapsack future. Poor girl with a number for a name. Murdering rapist ex-boyfriend. Horrifically dangerous job with guaranteed progressively debilitating injury as a happy end.

SF is so goddamn cheerful.

Target of Opportunity, Stephen Dedman

A time travelling big game hunter of sorts helps prove that at least one species of dinosaurs are clever enough for tool use. Possibly with the help of his wife. Told from the perspective of the guide who wants to bang the wife even after she becomes a widow and he starts an ongoing relationship with her close friend.

Are we completing the suicide trifecta here? Or is it just more murder?

Final Thoughts

I've read worse.

#Asimov's Science Fiction #Stephen Dedman #Paul J. McAuley #sarah clemens #m. shayne bell #James Patrick Kelly #Ian McDonald

[murderballadeer]

#aka me as a 3rd generation montrealer reading solomon gursky was here #soapbox #lit

[gasstationb]

Mordecai Richler, born January 27, 1931, was a Canadian writer best known for ‘The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz’ and ‘Barney's Version’, although it was his novels ‘St Urbain's Horseman’ and ‘Solomon Gursky Was Here’ that were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is also well known for the ‘Jacob Two-Two’ children's fantasy series. (at Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJUjgPnJGN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8qayvz4ip6o

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[wearesorcerer]

Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.

Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

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[helenarasmussen87]

Book reviews, comments

I’ve been working through my TBR pile which has basically grown HUGE due to me buying a TON of books before quarantine and during my birthday month. I’ve been making my way through them and I have noticed a pattern in the books that I have been reading. A pattern that kind of has made me wonder if I’m going to have to put down a lot of my favourite genres when it comes to reading.

I studied History and English in University. My grandfather was a Professor of History so I come by it honestly. I also developed a habit of reading HUGE family epics when I was working during University. I did a lot of night shifts, so I had to stay awake and the second hand and library had a lot of thick epics. So that’s where I developed my reading tastes.

Anyways.

The reason why I started to notice these things was after reading my way through a TON of epics and research books, I noticed the fiction, particularly the kind written between 1970′s-2000′s in some instances, was very misogynistic and in some instances, racist.

I noticed it in all except one book and that was about WWII. The Winds of War was actually really good with a lot of the book. Until it came to a pivotal scene that had a husband telling his wife about Pearl Harbour and then going on to comment about a half naked woman and her panties before groping his wife. I’m like I’m sorry, why was that necessary to include? Would you fixate on someone’s underwear while bombs are falling?

Gai-Jin was honestly disgusting and meandering. The commentary on a woman’s body was just as gross as anything you’d find in a locker room. The history was a bit sketch too. Everyone came off an asshole. If that was the point of the book, kudos. I’m regretting getting this one because I looked forward to it and it was just disgusting.

Solomon Gursky was Here It was a doozy since it was a good story, but how the writer talked about women and native people (It was set in Canada) was very sketch. So was his obsession with telling the readers about women’s breasts and men’s bodily functions. There was also the super sketch bit about the cross-dressing commander from the Franklin Expedition. I was disappointed, because it was actually a good mystery, but a lot of it was just vulgar and unnecessary.

The Terror Oh man was this one a disappointment. Not as bad as Gai-Jin but close. I have been doing a TON of research on the Franklin Expedition and this book popped up. Then I watched the show and I was in LOVE. Jared Harris is amazing as is Tobias Menzies, Ian Hart, and Adam Nagaitis. Nive Nielsen also. I was expecting something on par with the show.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t. Crozier in the book was more of a loner action hero and the second sight stuff was a bit like “Yeah, okay.” and how he ends up with Silence in the end was a bit hand wave. The atmosphere was amazing, but the racism and the commentary on women’s bodies and Silence being topless a lot was sketch. I know that in igloos women did go topless, but in some other areas...I dunno.

After all this, I’m like “Have I missed things like this before?”

Then I looked on my shelves and found that this isn’t always the case. Ken Follett wasn’t gross like that. Neither was Sharon Kay Penman. Or Chufo Llorens. Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Eleanor Catton. Susanna Clarke. Carsten Jensen. Madeline Miller. Or Dorothy Dunnett. Guy Gavriel Kay. Colleen McCullough and Diana Gabaldon can be a bit sketch, but not like this.

I wish there was a database to find this kind of stuff, because it really ruined my reading. I wanted to enjoy the books, but they were so sketch and iffy that it definitely put me off reading more historical epics if women are nothing more than flesh vases for dick flowers, as Hannah Gadsby puts it. It also made me wonder if I had read these when I was younger, would I have caught it?

I’m going to go with no, because I do remember reading “Solomon Gursky” as a twenty something year old and missing all that stuff. It was just so not good and inappropriate and has made me even warier about buying these kinds of things.

#books #my commentary #tbrpost #writing

[micaramel]

Artist: Candida Höfer

Venue: VNH Gallery, Paris

Exhibition Title: Paris Revisited

Date: November 6, 2018 – January 12, 2019

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of VNH Gallery, Paris. Photos by Claire Dorn.

Press Release:

VNH Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition by German artist Candida Höfer (born in 1944 in Eberswalde) which comprises eight photographs that are symbolic of the artist’s practice and that was built as a tribute to her work done in Paris. Overall, this exhibition introduces the one that will be held in the main space of the gallery next Spring (2019) where Candida Höfer will present a selection of recent photographies made in the French capital at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, in collaboration with VNH Gallery.

During the 70s, Candida Höfer was a student of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Fine Arts Academy of Düsseldorf and that is where she soon started developing such a specific esthetic which consists in shooting buildings from the point of view of their interiors and where the human abscence is surprising. Thereupon, it is interesting to underline that this Dusseldorf school historically succeeds the humanistic period in photography where, as its name suggests it, photographers have paid much attention to the human figure which had suffered so much from the war.

Throughout her images of theatres, libraries or empty churches, Candida Höfer sublimes these places through the effort made in objectiveness and detachment, both being strong characteristics of the Düsseldorf School (Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff). From the Becher couple, Candida keeps this profound interest for buildings’ interior architecture – in opposition to the Bechers which solely took photographs of the exterior facades – giving the viewer this grandiose impression, outcome of the concern given to the lighting, the framing, the symmetries as well as to the harmony that are all inevitably emerge form this architectural masterpieces.

Candida Höfer’s work appears in numerous collections such as the selection below :

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (France), Centro de Fotografia Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanque (Espagne), Centre Pompidou, Paris (France), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Francfort (Allemagne), DG Bank Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (USA), California Kunsthalle Basel, Bâle (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (Autriche), Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg (Allemagne), Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (Allemagne), Museum Folkwang, Fotografische Sammlung, Essen (Allemagne), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Espagne), Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA), Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (Allemagne), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (USA), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA), Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg (Allemagne), St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, (USA), Tate Modern, Londres (UK), ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (Allemagne).

Link: Candida Höfer at VNH Gallery

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[markattisha]

Apropos of nothing, IMHO “Solomon Gursky Was Here” is _the_ great Canadian novel. #noargument #canadareads #canadiana #mordechairichler

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