Thank you for recommending The Color out of Space! I haven’t read much Lovecraft because he can be a bit ‘icky’, but this was a tight, well-written short story with excellent narration and just the right level of weird for me. I’m inspired to browse more of Lovecraft now.
Thanks! You *might* enjoy these BBC "podcasts" which recast some Lovecraft stories as contermporary "mystery" podcast shows... including the shadow over Innsmouth. Not sure all the language is preserved to be honest - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/player
Fascinating. But not the sort of literature that creates the positive and confident mental state that I would try to foster with one of my cancer patients. You might find the struggles described in Hugo’s Miserables, or in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings more conducive to building inner strength and courage. Other books that come to mind are Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov and White Nights Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Illyich, Steinbeck’s East of Eden or Dickens a Tale of Two Cities. I personally found Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain and Proust fascinating when undoing my cancer and when I was in hospital for suspected leukemia respectively. Also Maya Angelou’s I know why the Caged Bird sings and Harper Lee’s to kill a Mocking Bird. George Elliott Silas Marner too. And children’s books like Tom’s Midnight Garden and the Secret Garden. Give yourself a good diet of literature to build courage. Read my book Rising from Existential Crisis in which I recount my overcoming as a ten year old in hospital with serious head injury as well as speaking of our Brexit fight and its impact on us. You are quoted in it. Wishing you more existential courage.
Thank you for recommending The Color out of Space! I haven’t read much Lovecraft because he can be a bit ‘icky’, but this was a tight, well-written short story with excellent narration and just the right level of weird for me. I’m inspired to browse more of Lovecraft now.
Thanks! You *might* enjoy these BBC "podcasts" which recast some Lovecraft stories as contermporary "mystery" podcast shows... including the shadow over Innsmouth. Not sure all the language is preserved to be honest - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/player
Fascinating. But not the sort of literature that creates the positive and confident mental state that I would try to foster with one of my cancer patients. You might find the struggles described in Hugo’s Miserables, or in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings more conducive to building inner strength and courage. Other books that come to mind are Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov and White Nights Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Illyich, Steinbeck’s East of Eden or Dickens a Tale of Two Cities. I personally found Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain and Proust fascinating when undoing my cancer and when I was in hospital for suspected leukemia respectively. Also Maya Angelou’s I know why the Caged Bird sings and Harper Lee’s to kill a Mocking Bird. George Elliott Silas Marner too. And children’s books like Tom’s Midnight Garden and the Secret Garden. Give yourself a good diet of literature to build courage. Read my book Rising from Existential Crisis in which I recount my overcoming as a ten year old in hospital with serious head injury as well as speaking of our Brexit fight and its impact on us. You are quoted in it. Wishing you more existential courage.
Helen, It is a delight to read your writing. It is great to have access to it.