#TheEnglishUnderstandWool
#HelenDeWitt
a bolt of very beautiful handloomed tweed…She had needed only a few metres,but she had bought the entire bolt to prevent it from falling into ignoble hands…
A note: Take this to Peter Craven of 34, Savile Row. The English understand wool.
#TheWriteWomen
An unknown hand holding the book 'The Last Samurai' by Helen DeWitt
Stayed up late and woke up early to read this magnificent book. I love The Last Samurai and it's undoubtedly one of my most favourite reads of all time and ever.
#thelastsamurai #helendewitt
Photo of book, The English Understand Wool, by Helen DeWitt
Shhh! I just got this, everyone be quiet, please. #HelenDeWitt @ndbooks.bsky.social
I am reading “Your Name Here” by Helen Dewitt/Ilya Gridneff and this is some wild-ass fiction. Best book I’ve read in years.
#HelenDewitt
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Evidently #HelenDewitt has a lot to say, but the structure of this book completely lost me 5/10 #TheLastSamurai
#DeWittGridneff25 #YourNameHere
#HelenDeWitt & #IlyaGridneff #readinganactofsharedsolitude #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #reemreel #athingofbeauty
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#DeWittGridneff25 #YourNameHere
#HelenDeWitt & #IlyaGridneff starting December 1st #readinganactofsharedsolitude #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #reemreel #athingofbeauty
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#DeWittGridneff25 #YourNameHere
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Friends — this wonder by #HelenDeWitt is ABSOLUTELY DELISH. Lucky me I’ve been on a roll reading the most amazing books. @ndbooks.bsky.social
Oh, the perfect novel! #HelenDeWitt
Up now at This Book Made Me Podcast: #booksky #reading
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Covers — the English understand wool and frog and toad
There are many things to note about Helen DeWitt’s The English Understand Wool, but right now I’m focused on the similarities in trim size and binding with my 1979 copy of Frog and Toad. 💚🤎
#booksky #frogandtoad #helendewitt
"'Oh, but YOU started me off! You launched us into aesthetics!' cried Lily playfully, for the descent to personalities was too marked a change of subject to be missed, and flirtation seemed the only apology for her earlier obtuseness." #SomeTrick Story: Trevor #HelenDeWitt
Just reminded again how funny the book “The Last Samurai” really is:
“There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.”
#TheLastSamrai #HelenDewitt
Screencap of the opening lines of Helen DeWitt's novella The English Understand Wool, with the word "tweed" highlighted in orange.
Finally starting Helen DeWitt's latest. It's speaking my language. #tweed #helendewitt #theenglishunderstandwool
"The fact is it is not the matter in the hand that repels the matter in the brick. The repulsion is the result of electrical charge. If it were not for electrical charge, we could walk through walls." #HelenDeWitt #TheLastSamurai
Reread the day before I watched #Oppenheimer (about a samurai too.)
"He spent seven years learning Chinese and Uralic and Altaic and Slavic and Semitic languages, and at the end of his Fellowship he set off for the desert."
LOVE this book. #HelenDeWitt #TheLastSamurai #Rereading
"This would be something that a German would understand, that you would want the details to be correct." #HelenDeWitt #GermanHighStandards
