Reading
Finished reading: The Corner that Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner. A strangely riveting book, and unlike anything I have ever read. I don’t even know how to describe it. 📚
Finished reading: The World of Odysseus by M. I. Finley. what an extraordinary book. I am filled with regret that I didn’t read it decades ago, though some of its arguments shaped the works I have read. 📚
This is gonna take a while. Currently reading: Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann 📚
Abandoned reading: Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews by Jonathan Cott. Dylan, the greatest singer-songwriter ever, is a terrible interviewee because … well, to put it bluntly, because he lies all the time. You can’t trust anything he says. 📚
Finished reading: Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns. Reading about the music of the Sixties can be fascinating, but reading about all the $$$ complications is often infuriating, and reading about the musicians' personal lives is deeply depressing. 📚
Finished reading: Bleak House by Charles Dickens 📚
Currently reading: Bleak House by Charles Dickens 📚
Finished reading: Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin 📚
Currently reading: Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin 📚
Finished reading: Farewell the Trumpets by James/Jan Morris. An extraordinary narrative history — I got to the end of this third volume and was strongly tempted to return to the first volume and start again. 📚
Currently reading: Farewell the Trumpets by James Morris 📚
Finished reading: Pax Britannica:The Climax of an Empire by James Morris 📚
Currently reading: Pax Britannica:The Climax of an Empire by James/Jan Morris 📚
Finished reading: Heaven’s Command by James/Jan Morris 📚
Currently reading: Pax Britannica by James (Jan) Morris. This Folio Society edition is one of my treasures. 📚
The American National Biography is not as consistently good, but there are some fine entries there too. 📚
Currently reading: Lots of biographies from the Dictionary of National Biography. I love these: Detailed enough to be informative, but readable in one short sitting. Biographical short stories. 📚