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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of…
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home (edició 2010)

de Susan Hill

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Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to revisit her own collection.… (més)
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Títol:Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
Autors:Susan Hill
Informació:Profile Books (2010), Paperback, 240 pages
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Howards End is on the Landing de Susan Hill

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This book was not at all what I thought it was going to be --- but it turned out to be a touching and thoughtful read that I know I'll be thinking about for a long time to come. Plus, it helped me add A LOT of books to my wishlist!

I started off really liking this author. In my notes, I wrote how great it was to read something like this from an older reader, a British reader, an educated reader, and one who understands quality. A big shift happened somewhere around half way through and I really struggled with my thoughts about her. Then, weirdly and providentially, she actually addressed the very thing close to the end of the book. I feel like I've been on a very long journey with author Susan Hill, even though it took me only two days to read through this short work.

I loved quotes like:

"A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life."

and

"But if the books I have read have helped to form me, then probably nobody else who ever lived has read exactly the same books, all the same books, and only the same books, as me. So just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA."

I loved some of her phraseology: "bumptious", "purple passages", and anthologies that are "puddings full of plums".

I got annoyed when she would make faulty assumptions (prideful remarks?) that one who organizes their books must not be a real reader or that collectors are somehow lesser than whatever she considers herself to be. Like I said, I started out really liking her...then I got to know her.

I started to realize she was a bit over-obsessed with Virginia Woolf. About that same time, I took a little time to research her bio information so when I got to the part in the book about her wanting to "emulate" Woolf in publishing, I was kind of sickened. This book was written before she wrecked her family and knowing what was coming made me wonder how much of her obsession with emulating Woolf played a part in her leaving her 40 year marriage to move in with a female lover. I think it's a heartbreaking poetic justice that her "lover" soon left her and I'm so sad for her poor husband and daughters. I think I've learned my lesson about looking up bios, though. I was enjoying her so much before that.

Weirdly, (prophetically?) she addresses this very issue in an unrelated chapter. She says, "Knowing about a writer's life is rarely necessary to an appreciation of their work. But occasionally it is." And later, speaking of a friend who also read a book by an author who did something he found to be morally wrong: "He was not being judgmental, simply stating a truth. -- that the book which had meant so much to him had been fatally diminished for him when he discovered what had happened." She seems to come to the conclusion later that an author's past, current, and future life should not have any influence on the artistic work they produce. I think this is true, for the most part, but also virtually impossible in reality.

The book ended as it began---fun and informative. I thought her "Bad Bed-Fellows" chapter was pretty creative and thoughtful and I loved this thought she had when seeing related books sitting serendipitously together on a shelf: "Can books learn from one another? Can they change as a result of sitting on a shelf beside another for years? If not, might they regret being forever trapped, as it were, within their own content, doomed never to grow old, never to return to a state before they were created?"

All in all, I didn't love this book, and I have anger issues toward the author, but I'm very glad I read it. It's given me some really worthwhile things to ruminate on. ( )
  classyhomemaker | Dec 11, 2023 |
An enjoyable and interesting read, but oh! the name-dropping (as I said to W H Auden just the other day).

Worth it, because this was interesting and a very engaging read. An awful lot of Austen et al and is there really any need to explain "Austen wrote some good books, you should try them" again? Nice to see a few more obscure names, like Sebald and Causley in there too. ( )
1 vota Andy_Dingley | Sep 14, 2023 |
Very enjoyable read about selecting books from the authors book shelves and why she chose them. She gave up buying books for a year and read 40 from her shelves over the year. ( )
  LisaBergin | Apr 12, 2023 |
This could have been much better - especially if it had accomplished what I thought it was meant to. This was meant as Ms Hill's year spent among her own books, but instead of reading and reporting back, the opportunity was taken to name-drop as often as possible and to talk more broadly about books, often without the sort of specific detail that might convince readers of the quality of the book being discussed. ( )
  soylentgreen23 | Jul 28, 2022 |
“I found the book I was looking for in the end, but by then it had become far more than a book. It marked the start of a journey through my own library.” (Quotation page 1)

Theme and content
It was an early autumn afternoon, when Susan Hill’s travel through the shelves begins. She was looking for this one book and found many others, long forgotten or never read.
Therefore, she makes the decision to begin a special reading year, reading just books from her shelves, without buying new ones. During this reading year, the author would also shorten the internet hours. It was not a kind of resolution or mission for her, just a personal decision to re-explore read and unread books in her house, although she soon finds out, that there are books for much longer than one year.

Implementation
This book is a kind of diary, a story about Susan Hill’s life as reader, as author of fiction and non-fiction, and her own publishing company, Long Barn Books. She shares with us her memories about her childhood and youth in Scarborough and about the related books she still loves and keeps on her shelves, together with the newer children books that her daughters loved when they were children. There are memories of interesting BBC interviews for “Bookshelf” and of enriching conversations with other well-known authors. One chapter is about writing fiction and she remembers: “Writing fiction was not regarded as something you did as a set task at a set time every day, let alone with a regular target of words. Those who saw things this way had never, of course, tried either and certainly never had to work to a deadline, let alone earn a living by writing.” (Quotation page 184). While sharing her stories and memories with us, she takes books out of the different shelves to find forty books for this reading year, finally sharing her list of the “Final Forty” with us. “I am taking out far too many books. I need at least another year of reading from home. But now I have reached the landing and here it is. Howard’s End.” (Quotation page 234)

Conclusion
Howards End is on the Landing is a book about a lifetime of reading and writing, an interesting, enjoyable read for passionate readers where one will find inspiring titles not yet read but could also, like me, feel confirmed to do the same, start a year of reading through your own shelves of still unread books. ( )
  Circlestonesbooks | Mar 7, 2022 |
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