Reading
Reading this because it’s discussed, with considerable energy, in Sayers’s Gaudy Night. 📚
Currently reading: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. I wrote a post about returning to this great book. 📚
High is Adam Roberts in his thriller mode. Think: Mission: Impossible on Mars. Brilliant. So much fun. 📚
Currently reading: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken. This will be my third complete reading of this great book. 📚
Finished reading: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn. A lovely novel, at once melancholy and hopeful, about learning to cope with a changed world, and about the many forms and meanings of family. 📚
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. 📚