#yiyun li

[llovelymoonn]

yiyun li the book of goose

kofi

#quotes #yiyun li #the book of goose #chinese lit #chinese literature #on self #on life #on identity #on girlhood #on love #on friendship

[thethingivecometosay]

‘Wednesday's child is full of woe / Thursday's child has far to go’

#wednesday’s child #nostalgia #bookshelf #library #books #yiyun li #piano #piano music #library books #bookstagram #bookblr #books & libraries

[leavemeinbrunswickstreet]

“Two people who are constantly seeking experience rarely settle for each other. Two people enduring experience rarely meet in life.

That’s why Fabienne and I were meant for each other.

We were the perfect pair, one seeking all that the other could experience.”

Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

#web weaving #gothic #australian gothic #literature #lit #aesthetic #southern gothic #yiyun li #the book of goose

[reverie-quotes]

I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone's decision against silence.

— Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

#dear friend #yiyun li #quotes #literary quotes #literature #aapiheritage #writing #books #spilled ink #thoughts #lit #pretty quotes #quote of the day #reverie #reverie quotes #quote #book quote #book quotes #inspiring quote #inspiring quotes #beautiful quote #beautiful quotes #dear friend from my life i write to you in your life

[litapeanut]

I love books whose titles are a saga on its own, which already tell you a story before you read their content.

#I know why the caged bird sings #maya angelou #The heart is a lonely hunter #carson mccullers #Living to tell the tale #Gabriel García Márquez #Dear friend from my life i write to you in your life #yiyun li #literature #books #books and reading

[constantinesbooknook]

I don’t really post photos of my own and I thought why not! Also I’d love to make some mutuals 🥰

IG: @saint_constantines

#bookblr #bookworm #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookish #booknerd #literature #books and mugs #books and coffee #the book of goose #yiyun li #mine

[lazyydaisyyy]

Was it real? How much of it was real? We cannot measure a world with a ruler or a scale, and conclude that it is two inches, or two ounces, short of being real.

Yiyun Li, The Book of the Goose

#yiyun li #The Book of the Goose #words #lit #quote #quoteoftheday

[maumul]

Morning and evening make a day. Days and nights make a week, a month, a life. Drop me into any moment, point me in any direction, and I could retrace my life. Details beget details. With all those details one might hope to find the full picture. A full picture of what, though? The more we remember, the less we understand.

Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

#the book of goose #yiyun li #books #booklr #quotes #memory #not tagging the book for this one lol

[florizels]

Again and again my mind breaks at the same spot as though it is a fracture that never fully heals: I fear taking you—you, my life, and all that makes it worth living—seriously.

Yiyun Li, from Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

#yiyun li #dear friend from my life i write to you in your life

[annacswenson]

~ a rose is never an argument ~

— Yiyun Li, from her article for The New Yorker's Oct. 30th issue

#rose #doubtfulgleamofsolace #yiyun li #new yorker

[llovelymoonn]

yiyun li the book of goose

kofi

#quotes #yiyun li #the book of goose

[ahnaltan]

But I had loved her all my life. I had loved her before we knew what the world was, what love was, and who we ourselves were. But all these things I could not say.

Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

#yiyun li #the book of goose #literary fiction #literature #wlw #wlw coded characters #sapphic #books #book #love #yearning #feelings

[litandlifequotes]

I am not the only casualty in this war against myself.

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li

#yiyun li #non fiction #reading #books #book quotes #quote #words

[reverie-quotes]

The books one writes—past and present and future—are they not trying to say the same thing: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life? What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance, if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

— Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

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[willywaldo]

Slow Reading

What’s your favorite book to assign to and discuss with your students at Princeton?

Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping.” I once asked some students how fast they could read, and one of them said she could cover 100 pages in an hour, so I decided to use “Housekeeping” to teach the students how to do slow reading. (Books written to be consumed at one sitting or in a day don’t interest me.) We read a chapter a week, and the students keep an extensive reading journal. They read not by scanning the text or summarizing the gist of a chapter or making conclusive and/or judgmental statements. Rather, they read word by word, sentence by sentence, and they ponder over an unfamiliar word choice, a fleeting gesture, the shadow of an image, and the ripple of a sentence seen in the following sentence. The collection of their thoughts, observations and questions is very touching. It’s a testament to the art of reading with not only five senses but also with memory and imagination. And I hope it’s the most important thing I can teach my students: not merely the crafts of writing but the importance of paying close attention, to the world in a book and to the world beyond a book.

The art of slow reading and paying close attention.

#reading #slow reading #yiyun li

[dk-thrive]

But there is power in reading slowly

There is something about churning through books that induces envy and even admiration, never more than at this time of year when piles of finished tomes are splashed across social media. Bragging rights seem to go to those who have read lots of books and read them quickly – how many times have you seen someone boast about finishing 10 books in a year? What about five?

But there is power in reading slowly, something the Chinese-American author Yiyun Li tells her creative writing students at Princeton University. “They say, ‘I can read 100 pages an hour’,” she says. “But I say, ‘I don’t want you to read 100 pages an hour. I want you to read three pages an hour’.”

That’s the speed Li is happy to read at, even if she is re-reading a familiar text. “People often say they devoured a book in one sitting. But I want to savour a book, which means I give myself just 10 pages a day of any book.” On an average day, Li, best known for her novels A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Where Reasons End, reads 10 different books, spending half an hour on each title.

At that pace it can take Li up to three weeks to finish a novel. “When you spend two to three weeks with a book, you live in that world,” she says. “I think reading slowly is such an important skill. Nobody has ever talked about it, or taught me that. I’m a very patient reader. Even if it’s a very compelling book. I don’t want to rush from the beginning to the end.”

Elizabeth Strout, the Booker-shortlisted author of Olive Kitteridge and the Lucy Barton books, is also taking books at a more tranquil pace. “I was never a fast reader [but] I think I read more slowly than I used to. This is partly to savour every word. The way a sentence sounds to my ear is so important to me in the whole reading experience, and I always want to get it all – like when you read poetry.”

These words hit a nerve because I am an archetypal impatient reader, desperate to have finished a book as soon as I start. I want to know what happens – now. Ever since I started keeping track of the books I read (because I was sick of forgetting what I’d read) I’ve wanted to read more, to read faster.

So, in an effort to follow Li’s advice, I resolve both to linger and to juggle more than one book [...]

Taking my time with multiple books at once feels liberating; as if I have permission to pick up books I’ve spent years meaning to tackle. I’m not promising never to cane something again but I really think Li is on to something. Oh, and I’m at 85 books for the year, not that I’m counting.

— Susie Mesure, from ‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly' (The Guardian, December 2, 2022). Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days or even weeks can immerse one deeper in the writer’s world

#read #reading #slow #books #Yiyun Li #Elizabeth Strout