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Title: Note Book
Author: Jeff Nunokawa
Narrator: P. J. Ochlan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-27-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Science & Technology, Technology
Publisher's Summary:
"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known." (Note Book)
Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted a brief essay in the Notes section of his Facebook page. Often just a few sentences but never more than a few paragraphs, these compelling literary and personal meditations have raised the Facebook post to an art form, gained thousands of loyal readers, and been featured in the New Yorker.
In Note Book, Nunokawa has selected some 250 of the most powerful and memorable of these essays, many accompanied by the snapshots originally posted alongside them. The result is a new kind of literary work for the age of digital and social media, one that reimagines the essay's efforts, at least since Montaigne, to understand our common condition by trying to understand ourselves.
Ranging widely, the essays often begin with a quotation from one of Nunokawa's favorite writers - George Eliot, Henry James, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, or James Merrill, to name a few. At other times Nunokawa is just as likely to be discussing Joni Mitchell or Spanish soccer striker Fernando Torres.
Confessional and moving, enlightening and entertaining, Note Book is ultimately a profound reflection on loss and loneliness - and on the compensations that might be found through writing, literature, and connecting to others through social media.
Members Reviews:
great read
Nunokawa is the best - such an interesting way to negotiate with literature. Pick any page and you're transported!
How cool to have a hardback bound copy of Professor Nunokawa's ...
How cool to have a hardback bound copy of Professor Nunokawa's new art of literary commentary via social media!
It is great to read his writing about his writing. I especially love the comments he picks from his wonderful Mother..
Highly recommend this book for it's intelligent insightfulness...
The writing is obtuse and annoying. I know there are interesting ideas here but ...
I was looking forward to reading this book. Now I'm looking forward to putting it down. The writing is obtuse and annoying. I know there are interesting ideas here but they are so poorly conveyed it doesn't seem worth the effort. I just finished reading a book of wonderful essays by Charles Simic. The disparity is glaring.
Self absorbed pithy comments personal and boring for the most part
Self absorbed pithy comments personal and boring for the most part. Wading through all the meandering free association trying to find something meaningful was painful.
More intellectual snobbery than casual reading
Lacking a postgraduate liberal arts degree, I found myself all too frequently rereading sentences, and looking up words in the dictionary. Too bad the Kindle Try a Sample download contained only the table of contents. Had I read a few pages of content I'd have saved $16.17 toward something less cerebral.
