The MarginalianA Lighthouse for Dark Times
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/01/transition/
Ken Everett (Ken's Blogspot)Breaking free from Edwardian constraints! A woman finds passion and independence between Italy and the English countryside. 🇮🇹🪟🌳
Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-room-with-view-by-e-m-forster.html
Austen's final, unfinished work. A vibrant glimpse into a changing seaside world of health-seekers and entrepreneurs. 🌊🏖️👒
Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2019/02/sandition-by-jane-austen.html
Julie HowlinHappy new year!
EM Forster, English author best known for his novels A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) was born on this date in 1879. 10 facts about him:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/12/1-january-em-forster.html
Yahooey“Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.” — E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
#BOTD #EMForster #QOTD #Life #Quotation #Difficulty #Quote
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/quote-of-the-day-5387/
Classics ReaderRecently finished #TheMachineStops #EMForster Three out of four stars. Would recommend (but -not- this edition; print on demand should not exist!) Might read again. "Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee." Continuing with: #APeople'sHistoryOfTheUnitedStates #HowardZinn
ius naufragiiHistoria, trama, trama con misterio y trama de P. D. James
En el libro Aspectos de la novela, E. M. Forster escribe:
«El rey murió y luego murió la reina» es una historia. «El rey murió y luego la reina murió de pena» es una trama. […] «La reina murió, nadie sabía por qué, hasta que se descubrió que fue de pena por la muerte del rey», es una trama con misterio, un enunciado que admite un desarrollo mayor.
Yo añadiría: «Todo el mundo creyó que la reina había muerto de pena hasta que descubrieron la marca del pinchazo en el cuello.» Eso es un misterio sobre un asesinato, y también admite un desarrollo mayor.
Todo lo que sé sobre novela negra
P. D. James
#DeepDarkFears #EMForster #historia #LaDamaRojaMataSieteVeces #misterio #PDJames #TodoLoQueSéSobreNovelaNegra #trama
shipWell. That made me have a Think.
voodoocactus's review of Maurice
3/5: I liked the atmosphere and the evocative language (even though the style was sometimes a tad too melodramatic for my tastes). I didn’t always agree with Forster’s choices in how to treat the main characters but I still found them very relatable–perhaps because while this is a story about forbidden love that was considered a sickness, the main conflicts aren’t really about the homosexuality (although it’s the driving force behind them, obviously) but about what it means to love, what it means to be a human. It’s about feeling things and not necessary about having dick thoughts. The will-they...
DroppieHave revered #EMForster 's #TheMachineStops ever since discovering it 1000 years ago. Decided i prolly should read more of him, so atm am ~2/3 thru #WhereAngelsFearToTread . Oh damn, is this a case of never meet your heroes? Ugh, the #empirism, #imperialism, #sexism, but most overtly of all, the #racism. Ugh. Is he simply of his time, or is he even worse? 🤔🤷
Given that for many years now all my leisure #eBook reading is #GutenbergProject #ePubs on my tablet, by definition most if not all of this is old to extremely old works, ergo, i am consuming a nearly unbroken diet this way of obsolete appalling societal attitudes. I wonder if my decision years ago therefore to construct my eBook #library this way in order to digest, learn, & enjoy lots of classic English, French, Russian et al #literature, is actually helping or harming me [given my natal intense #misanthropy & #depression hardly need much encouragement]. 🤯
Given that for many years now all my leisure #eBook reading is #GutenbergProject #ePubs on my tablet, by definition most if not all of this is old to extremely old works, ergo, i am consuming a nearly unbroken diet this way of obsolete appalling societal attitudes. I wonder if my decision years ago therefore to construct my eBook #library this way in order to digest, learn, & enjoy lots of classic English, French, Russian et al #literature, is actually helping or harming me [given my natal intense #misanthropy & #depression hardly need much encouragement]. 🤯
RanaldCloustonFinished reading #EMForster 's 1908 romance. There were parts I really liked but some of the characters feel much more alive than others - with George very much in the latter category - and while Lucy's 'muddle' is quite nicely drawn I would have liked to see her do a bit more than follow other people's instructions all story long. A classic in its way but not really for me. I haven't seen the adaptation that the cover advertises but it does have a remarkably good cast! #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Mark CarriganWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand
There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine
E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M
From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:
There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.
From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:
One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw
I am transformingI am vibrating
Look at me now
#commitment #EMForster #JamesBaldwin #Lacan #life #presence #psychoanalysis #Rilke #void
