It’s Sunday. Let’s talk about BOOKS 📚

I haven’t posted a story yet: It’s Sunday. Let’s talk about BOOKS 📚

for some time, but I would like to start with the words …

Let’s try something different.

How about this, let’s talk about everything related to books:

• Your favorite book(s)
• Your favorite author(s)
• Your book that you wrote
• Which book do you still remember after 20 (or 10 or 5 or 1) years?
• Which book surprised you and why

Such things.

Because last time I tried to show you what interests me and why, in the hope that I would get a response about the books, authors and genres that interest you all. For some, some of you, that was the case. For most, not.

My aim is not to hold a series of lectures, but to stimulate a conversation about the things that, apart from my sisters and children, have given me a reason for being above all else.

Books, or more precisely, stories.

Wild and provocative stories about unforgettable characters that stand the test of time.

Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare

(probably written between 1588 and 1589) is such a work.

It is, quite ironically, a story as old as time as the cartoon mouse sings in this Disney film; nothing new about a subject that is part of the human experience. However, it is the sentences and the pace of the action that ensure that the lines are remembered years after reading them.

https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/much-ado-about-nothing/read/

The requested formal citation for the linked topic, the text of the Shakespeare play “Much Ado About Nothing” —

Shakespeare, William. A lot of noise about nothing from The Folger Shakespeare. Edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles. Folger Shakespeare Library, (14.07.2024). https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/much-ado-about-nothing/read/

For me, this is one such line – page 157, line 35:

In this respect, men and children are no different.

I had already read a lot of Shakespeare’s works before the first Star Wars film came out in 1977. Having lived my whole life in a less than refined little corner of the world in southwest Washington State and never having seen any of his work in person, it was a shock to see these films.

Because Yoda sounded to me like someone reading Shakespeare.

Isn’t it crazy sometimes how the absurd and fantastic can somehow connect to your life when you least expect it?

Her thoughts?

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