In My Mind's Eye Pdf

ISBN: 1631495364
Title: In My Mind's Eye Pdf A Thought Diary
Author: Jan Morris
Published Date: 2019
Page: 208

“The most purely charming thing I have read so far in 2019 is Jan Morris’s In My Mind’s Eye.... There is so much dash and verve in Morris’s sentences, so much personality, a generosity of spirit that is flavored by well-earned crankiness.... [S]o charming, so endearing, such an antidote to boredom.”” - Constance Grady, Vox“It is remarkable to be writing a book at 91, yet what grips is not so much her thoughts about the world (towards which she turns and turns away) but her sense of the rhythms of domestic life.” - The Guardian“Morris is one of Britain’s greatest living writers.” - The Times (UK)““[Morris] is the same age as Queen Elizabeth II and like that remarkable monarch she still seems, in her early 90s, to be completely engaged with the world, understanding of its foibles and appreciative of what life has to offer.... Reading these beautifully written pages, one is struck by the gentle note of lament they host.... In My Mind’s Eye is a lovely book, halfway between a diary and a volume of brief essays, a book that has a gentle, haunting tone. It will remind us of what a good, wise and witty companion Jan Morris has been for so many readers for so long.”” - Alexander McCall Smith, New York Times Book Review“A splendidly quirky confection that mixes the trivial with the serious, like life.... Morris has a gift for picking out what seems only in retrospect to be obvious. Like all good diaries, this one benefits from the strengths of the form: the possibility of being (or sounding) spontaneous and impressionistic.” - Literary Review (UK)“This is vintage Morris – the mundane mingling with the majestic in a casual embrace, a regular walk quickened by Welsh military marches and stirring requiems. Like Michel de Montaigne, the seminal 16th-century essayist she deeply admires, Ms. Morris is a great expert at amusing herself, viewing her local stomping grounds as a lively source of theater.... Sublime.” - Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal“In committing her ruminations to 320 entertaining pages, Morris creates a captivating image of a delightfully dotty elderly lady.... After closing the book, I felt bereft of Morris’s company and her chummy, conversational prose style.” - Susan Flockhart, Glasgow Sunday Herald“At the start of her 10th decade, Jan Morris was asked to write a diary of her thoughts. Day-to-day observations and experiences, mostly light, some weighty, others the expected ruminations of a versatile British author long celebrated for her histories and travel writing. Morris, now 92, undertook the task with some trepidation, not because of her age ― she is doing quite nicely, thank you ― but out of modesty: Why would anyone care? Well, we do. Especially when these brief, daily entries range so widely, from sharp, wistful or cranky to eccentric and grandmotherly.” - Bill Thomson, The Post and Courier Born in 1926, Jan Morris is the author of such classics as the Pax Britannica trilogy and The World, among many others. She lives in Wales.

Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection.

Celebrated as the “greatest descriptive writer of her time” (Rebecca West), Jan Morris has been dazzling readers since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved ninety-two-year-old, author of classics such as Venice and Trieste, embarks on an entirely new literary enterprise―a collection of daily diaries, penned over the course of a single year. Ranging widely from the idyllic confines of her North Wales home, Morris offers diverse sallies on her preferred form of exercises (walking briskly), her frustration at not recognizing a certain melody humming in her head (Beethoven’s Pathétique, incidentally), her nostalgia for small-town America, as well as intimate glimpses into her home life.

With insightful quips on world issues, including Britain’s “special relationship” with the United States and the #MeToo movement, In My Mind’s Eye will charm old and new Jan Morris fans alike.

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Random thoughts by an erudite and aging author I was thinking about Jan Morris and decided to see if she written anything new. As I am a senior, I was interested in this book and ordered it immediately. The entries are small and varied but also wonderful.Spirited, feisty example of aging Excellent writing. Morris is feisty, inquisitive, adventurous--at 92. More power to her! I love the thought of her marching up and down in front of her cottage singing old hymns and marching songs. Her words on art are especially powerful and have stayed with me. She has health problems, she cares for her long-time partner who has dementia, she lives in a rural area, she still drives. Not easy! I'd love to be like this at her age! Her spirit inspires me. Grateful I came upon this book, which has had a far more positive impact on me than the Mary Pipher book I just finished (see that review).Good luck to both of us The book arrived on Friday morning. I cleared the decks, brewed the tea, turned off the phone and settled in for a day of reading. A challenge—finish it today. But, before the pot of tea was emptied, just about page 33, I laid down the book and turned on the phone. This is not, for me, a sit-down-and-read book. Not like a meal from the drive-through that will be gobbled down before the news is off. Like a gourmet meal, this is a book to be savored, enjoyed, and slowly digested.Morris shares that as she enters her tenth decade she is writing her first journal—“good luck to me.” And, I add, “Good luck to me, too.” Thing change—her mood, the weather, her car. She puts down what on her mind today, briefly, and then she’s off. This how I plan to finish my reading. The book will live by my reading chair, ready for a frequent dip in. My own journal I lives nearby so may even write a response to Morris in my mind’s eye.At a decade and a few ahead of me, she offers insights that make me feel fine about my own approaching “tenth decade.” Morris’s writing is, as always, a delight. I keep my underlining pencil ready, because I figure when in a few months I finish the book, I suspect I’ll just turn it over and start again. Before I do, I’ll stop and send a sequel to this review.

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