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fullnessofjoy 's review for:
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
informative
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
My first book of 2025, and first Hemmingway, was an informative literary excursion that I found surprisingly enjoyable. Hemingway is undoubtedly an exquisite, talented writer; his deft ability with words, sentences, and phrases and their construction, the brevity, and the economy of his style are parts of what make his writing so perfect. The memoir-type narrative itself was a bit too episodic and random, and I would have perhaps enjoyed a more coherent narrative structure, but there was subtlety there that I enjoyed, and I loved all those encounters with the different famous writers of the 1920s and their encounters with Hemingway in Paris. I can see where the film Midnight in Paris got its inspiration. There were some really good writing quotes I want to store away in my commonplace book as well.
While the book did not blow me away, I definitely want to read more Hemingway in the future.
A bonus point for me was the brief discussion on Dostoevsky's works: “I have been wondering about Dostoevsky,” I said. “How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?”
While the book did not blow me away, I definitely want to read more Hemingway in the future.
A bonus point for me was the brief discussion on Dostoevsky's works: “I have been wondering about Dostoevsky,” I said. “How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?”