#stoner john williams

[elusivelogic]

"...love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another." - Stoner, John Williams

[justsomeguy-cassavetes]

this book is so butleycore btw. if yuo even care

[pressedstars-andflowers]

These are just things I’ve read that give me autumnal vibes - something melancholy, something that lingers a little while longer, something irrevocably and undeniably human.

Austen’s Persuasion or ‘95 film

Stoner by John Williams - quiet, understated, beautiful

Cormac McCarthys The Road - the prose is barren but my heart is full

Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep - I can’t stop thinking about this one description about the sun setting over the river; so simple, yet indescribably tender

Murakamis South of the Border, West of the Sun

Goodnight Mister Tom - a childhood favourite about healing

Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot - that poignant image of “sunlight on a broken column” but of course all of his works have this inexplicable melancholy to them

Thomas Grays Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Sharingan Rising by @weialala-leia - a deep and nuanced take on grief and family

Anything by @blue-plums but perhaps a favourite - Go the Converse - imbued with a gentle yet unviolable hope

March Comes in Like a Lion - though the manga is lovely, the music and stunning graphics of the anime render it truly heartbreakingly sincere

Kiyo in Kyoto or the lovely live-action Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House - the small happiness of ordinary days

[propertiesofjoy]

stoner, john williams

[caostalgia]

"En su año cuarenta y tres de vida, William Stoner aprendió lo que otros, mucho más jóvenes, habían aprendido antes que él: que el amor no es un fin sino un proceso a través del cual una persona intenta conocer a otra."

John William, Libro: Stoner

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stoner, john williams

[everywarmth]

John Williams in John McGahern’s introduction to Stoner

[macrolit]

See my latest IG post about the author of Stoner and his time at the University of Denver.

[smokefalls]

… the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

John Williams, Stoner

[justforbooks]

In some ways Stoner is the anti-campus novel. A departure from the usual fetishisations of academia, its protagonist William Stoner is as repressed in later life by the Middle America university where he teaches as he was once liberated as a student. Covering Stoner’s life, death and anticlimactic career, it’s a novel that explores how life’s accumulated disappointments can wear a person down. If it sounds like a drag, rest assured that it’s precisely the opposite. A must-read for anyone who’s ever felt as if they betrayed their class in pursuit of a good education.

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[aliteraryprincess]

Vacation Book Haul!

From Susie's Stories (Rockport, MA):

Stoner by John Williams

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

From The Bookstore of Gloucester (Gloucester, MA):

Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist

From Dogtown Books (Gloucester, MA):

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt

The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

[sublecturas]

"Stoner", de John Williams en la #LíneaH

[propertiesofjoy]

stoner, john williams

[booksandabeer]

Was overcome with the urge to start a reread of John Williams' novel Stoner this morning and was reminded right on page 1 why this book fucked me up so thoroughly when i first read it:

DEVASTATING.