It's Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
September 25−October 2, 2010
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
Every year during this week I choose a book off the 100 most challenged classic books
(for some reason I can't seem to post the link)
This year I've chosen #18 - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
From Wikipedia:
Published in 1926, the plot centers on a group of expatriate Americans and Britons in continental Europe during the 1920s. It follows the group from Paris to the running of the bulls in Pamplona. The book's title, selected by Hemingway (at the recommendation of his publisher) is taken from Ecclesiastes 1:5: "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose." It is often described as Hemingway's best novel.[1]
The novel made Hemingway famous, inspired young ladies across America to wear short hair and sweater sets like the heroine's—and to act like her too—and changed writing style in ways that could be seen by picking up any American magazine published within the next twenty years.[2]
Here are some great quotes from The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
"You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development."
"I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while, and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time."
"Tell him that bulls have no balls."
"I don't say it's right. It is right though for me, God knows, I've never felt such a bitch.'"
"You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
"Isn't it pretty to think so?"
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boil about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing."
"She was built with the curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey."
Gotta love Hemingway...
What book will you be reading this week?
Liz, Love Hemingway. Went on a streak of reading him many ages ago. Read all the books and most of his shorter works. The Sun Also Rises is a good book.
ReplyDelete"Isn't it pretty to think so is my fave," probably.
ReplyDeleteCrystallizes the whole book for me.
Took an entire semester of Hemingway in college. Was taking Creative Writing at the same time, so everything I wrote that year was mimickry of the style and voice.
As if.
I know. Makes you howl to think of me writing stuff like "it was good" now, doesn't it?