INSPIRATION: ART & DESIGN
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Friday, 12 July 2019
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
INSPIRATION: AMAZING SPACES
Look at this amazing space! It’s the world’s Largest Monastery Library in Admont Abbey a Benedictine monastery in Austria. Reminds me of a library of my dreams or something out of Beauty and the Beast.
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Saturday, 8 June 2019
FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ
FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ
1. HOW TO SUPPORT A FRIEND WHO IS DEALING WITH ANXIETY
2. HOW TO ROAST GARLIC
3. 7 COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID IF YOU HAVE OILY SKIN
4. AMAZON SAYS THESE ARE THE 100 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ IN YOUR LIFETIME
5. TOP 5 TIPS FOR GROWING WILDFLOWERS
Thursday, 7 March 2019
TOP FIVE: BOOKS
TOP FIVE: BOOKS
It’s World Book Day and I can’t believe I’ve never shared with you my favourite books – so here is my Top Five…
1. LOLITA - VLADIMIR NABOKOV
This is, despite it’s uncomfortable subject matter, without a doubt, my favourite book of all time. I read it in college for the first time for my English Literature class (my choice though, it wasn’t assigned) and instantly fell in love with it. I read it several times, in fact this is one of the few books I’ve read more than once. The combination of a compelling story along with the most beautifully written prose I’ve ever read, makes this my benchmark against which all other books I read are judged. I recommend it to everyone, despite the raised eyebrows. And may I remind you, probably the most amazing thing about this book; Nabokov wrote this in English, which is not his native tongue. He wrote, what some consider to be the greatest work of the 20thcentury, in a language not his own!
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2. MARIANNE DREAMS - CATHERINE STORR
I first read this book when I was ten and I thought it was the best thing I’d ever read, and every few years I get it out again and think, ‘man, I had good taste, this still holds up.’ I was an odd kid, with a love of the supernatural and a thirst for the kind of adventure that could just turn up on your doorstep, and this book ticked all my boxes. It’s a story about a girl who dreams what she draws, but it’s dark, almost too dark for a children’s book, but also wonderful.
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3. ASK THE DUST - JOHN FANTE
This book, I believe, is the reason, my boyfriend and I are together. I recommended this book to him and I think he’s loved me for it ever since. I read it in my late teens, recommended to me while searching for books by Bukowski (who is Fante’s biggest fan) but I can’t remember whom I read first. This book spoke to me, not because of circumstance but because of tone. I felt Bandini’s fear and nerves, I sympathized with his unrequited love and feelings of hopelessness and neglect, confusion about how to be in the world and how to succeed in life. Bandini is probably one of the characters in the literary world I worry and care for the most. I haven’t re-read this for a long time – I hope I still feel the same when I do.
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4. THE OUTSIDER - ALBERT CAMUS
The opening to this book is a stinger and it doesn’t get any easier to read, but it is brilliant. I always find it hard to judge the writing of a translation but I feel that the English version of this book at least keeps the tone and sentiment of the original, although it probably sounds more deep and beautiful in the French language. I read this and a few other existentialist books at the same time during my teens but this was the one that stuck, it stuck with a few others too because it is the inspiration for a lot of works of art and music.
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5. NAÏVE. SUPER - ERLEND LOE
This book is amazing in it’s simplicity. It is about a man in his twenties who suddenly becomes disillusioned and confused by the world and his attempts to reset his thinking. It’s a truly modern book (almost ahead of it’s time). This is another book that my boyfriend and I bonded over and I would recommend it to anyone maybe feeling a little lost who needs some reassurance in the world but doesn’t want to read a self help book because sometimes they can be patronizing and this book gives the complete opposite notion.
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Friday, 1 March 2019
Monday, 25 February 2019
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Monday, 15 October 2018
FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ
FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ
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3. EVERY BEAUTY INFOGRAPHIC YOU'LL EVER NEED TO KNOW FROM PINTEREST
4. YOUR TO-DO LIST TO MAKE 2018 YOUR HEALTHIEST YEAR EVER
5. 50 CONTEMPORARY BOOKS EVERY WOMAN’S GOTTA READ
Thursday, 23 August 2018
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Sunday, 16 July 2017
Sunday, 25 June 2017
Monday, 1 May 2017
FILM 1640: FAHRENHEIT 451
TRIVIA: Oskar Werner cut his
hair for the final scene to purposely create a continuity error. This was due
to his hatred for the director.
The film's credits are spoken, not
read, in keeping with the film's theme of destruction of reading material.
According to producer Lewis M. Allen, François Truffaut
and Oskar Werner
hated each other by the end of filming. For the last two weeks, they didn't
speak to one another.
Author Ray Bradbury never
did any fact-checking in regards to the title. He asked a fire chief what
temperature book paper burned at, and was given the answer "451 degrees
Fahrenheit." He liked the title so much, he didn't bother to see if it was
the correct temperature. Actually, The Chief went to burn an actual book,
because he didn't know the answer when Bradbury asked him; he read the
temperature with a thermometer.
Producer Lewis M. Allen said
the studio's legal department requested that only books in the public domain be
shown burning for fear of being sued by offended authors. Director François Truffaut
and Allen ignored the request, believing that anyone would be flattered to have
their book included.
François Truffaut
reportedly said that he found science fiction films uninteresting and
arbitrary. Because of this, a friend of his told him the story of Ray Bradbury's novel
'Fahrenheit 451'. Immediately afterward, Truffaut wanted to make a film from
the novel and subsequently spent years raising the financing.
Among the books burned by the
firemen is the film journal "Cahiers du Cinema" for which director François Truffaut
wrote. Pictured on the cover is a picture from Breathless (1960),
written by Truffaut. Also among the books burned is "The Martian
Chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451" itself, both written by Ray Bradbury.
The monorail featured in the film
had been built in France in 1959 by the SAFEGE consortium as a test track. It
was dismantled shortly after filming.
The first and only English language
film for director François Truffaut.
Books shown or mentioned in the
movie: Don Quixote - Othello, the Moor of Venice - Vanity Fair - Madame Bovary
- Le monde a coté - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the
Looking-Glass - Gaspard Hauser - Robinson Crusoe - The World of Salvador Dali -
Jeanne d'Arc - Life and Loves - The Weather - My Autobiography by Charles
Chaplin - Les negres - Confessions of an Irish Rebel - The Ginger Man -
Petrouchka - The Catcher In The Rye - The Moon and Sixpence - Lolita - David
Copperfield - Mein Kampf - She Might Have Been Queen - Social Aspects of
Disease - The Ethics of Aristotle - The Brothers Karamazov - The Sorrows of
Young Werther - The Martian Chronicles - Plato's Republic - Fahrenheit 451 -
Pride and Prejudice - Gone with the Wind - Animal Farm - No Orchids for Miss
Blandish - Jane Eyre - Moby Dick - The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer - The Trial.
According to producer Lewis M. Allen, it
was his last-minute idea to have Julie Christie play both main female roles. Allen says Terence Stamp then
withdrew from playing Montag because Stamp felt that with two parts, Christie
would overshadow him.
Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Aznavour, Peter O'Toole, and Terence Stamp were
all considered for the role of Montag.
Monday, 24 April 2017
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