The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

from Devil_llama

This book, though nominally an autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, is actually more of an autobiography of Gertrude Stein, told in the voice of Toklas. As a Stein book, it is filled with oddball phrasing, strange punctuation, erratic capitalization, and games with the English language, all of which...

from the_awesome_opossum

I was so amused by the premise, of Alice B. Toklas being reduced to a minor role in her own autobiography - the Robin to Gertrude's Batman. Could you imagine how the conversations about this book must have gone? Poor Alice Gertrude Stein must have been such a character, and she and Alice lived su...

from ImperfectCJ

Before I started reading The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, I looked at reviews online. Many, many of them mention how conceited Stein is. They complain that she thinks herself a genius and that her writing is fantastic and groundbreaking and to the writing world what Picasso's paintings are t...

from technodiabla

I would have rated this book higher but I think many people would find it incredibly boring. I was fascinated by the rambling comings and going in an unconventional household is early 20th century Paris. I love many of the artists Stein hosted and found the unadorned story of their early years re...

from peajayar

I'm rereading this book as I embark on a project to write a short story in the style of GS, set in New Zealand in the forties and fifties. Madness, probably, and likely doomed to failure. But oh my goodness this is a great book to reread. She had a great understanding of many things, including th...