Monday 12 February 2024

Alrightreads: Romance

Susan Youens, Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin

1992 / Ebook / 129 pages

****

This deep analysis would be appreciated for any good concept album. It ends up more lit crit than music study, so is more on my level than most of these.


Charles Addams, Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One

1937-? (collected 2006) / Ebook / 165 pages

****

A generous spread of morbid funnies and impenetrable enigmas.


Michel Chion, Eyes Wide Shut

2002 / Ebook / 96 pages

**

I remember liking this film, but this celebration of painstaking banality accidentally makes it sound like a load of shit.


Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk: A Romance

1796 / Audiobook / 431 pages

****

Always go to the source. Deserving of a cobwebbed throne in the Gothic pantheon, though less inviting to return visits than most.


William Blake, Poetical Sketches

1769-77 (collected 1783) / Ebook / 72 pages

***

This aptly-titled private chapbook is more juvenilia scrapbook than promising demo, but I liked the darker ones.

Faves: 'To Winter,' 'Fair Eleanor,' 'Mad Song'