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Albert Anker - Lesender Mann
Reading Man
Gemälde, Aquarell auf Papier, 35 × 25 cm, 1909
Emily Dickinson - He ate and drank the precious Words
He ate and drank the precious Words —
His Spirit grew robust —
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was Dust —
He danced along the dingy Days
And this Bequest of Wings
Was but a Book — What Liberty
A loosened spirit brings —
Poems published 1890 by Mabel Loomis Todd, T.W. Higginson (eds.)
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began reading Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan by Leslie Gourse
"A deeply felt portrait of an artist whose influence on a generation of vocalists was profound." -- New York Times Book Review
Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy, Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan's vital musical legacy and offers a detailed portrait of the woman as well as the singer. Revealed here is "The Divine One" as only her closest friends and musical associates knew her.
By her early twenties Sarah Vaughan was singining with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Billy Eckstine, helping them invent bebop. For forty-five years thereafter, she reigned supreme in both pop and jazz, with several million-selling hits (among them "Broken Hearted Melody," "Make Yourself Comfortable," and "Misty").
But life offstage was never smooth for Sarah Vaughan. Her voluptuous voice was matched by her exuberant appetite for excess: three failed marriages, financial difficulties through many changes in management, late-night jam sessions, liquor, and cocaine. In Sassy, though, we also see the feisty and unpretentious woman who worked hard all her life to support her parents and adopted daughter, and who came to savor the hard-won independence and worldwide acclaim she achieved as the greatest jazz singer of her generation.
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema - The Persistent Reader
Der beharrliche Leser
Gemälde, Öl auf Leinwand, 58 x 44 cm, 1909
Beim Lesen sollte mann sich nicht stören lassen ^^
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Well after fitzing around for several days (weeks?) I always have this problem after finishing a Anthony Doerr book…arrgh…
I’m a couple of chapters into A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Has taken me a bit to get into her writing style but I’m maybe there and the story is picking up…
:)
I've been meaning to read this for a while...
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Cormac McCarthy - Le passager
ça va être mon prochain achat, j'attendais la parution en français avec impatience :)
#littérature #literature #McCarthy #lecture #reading #vendredilecture
https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/cormac-mccarthy-le-passager-editions-de-lolivier
This is reality already
♲ Kimberly - 2023-02-23 10:53:44 GMT
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