Love Miss Eudora..
Let's see- at the moment finishing the last Harry Potter installment. For some odd reason I felt the need to reread The Sirens of Mars by Vonnegut the other day, The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater (brilliant!) and Beasts of the Southern Wild and also Heading West by Professor Betts. I'm incapable of reading a single book at a time I'm afraid..
Some sort of weird character flaw, I'm sure.
Reading? Just finished the current issue of Esquire. They're operating at a high level these days, the Esquire folk. Next up: Total Immersion, a book I read half of several months ago; it's about swimming, which I'm doing more of these days because of the two related facts that (1) I tore a calf muscle last month and (2) I'm trying to fit more comfortably into my waistbands.
Not reading? Most (but not all) books on the lists for my comps exams, which are in theory coming up before Christmas.
You ever been to England in the summer? One of the things I don't like about it is the need to think about whether you need long sleeves/a coat every day.
Okay, you must tell the Eudora W. story!
I just finished Lisa Alter's Kinfolks, which is about her search for her Melungeon ancestors. Pretty interesting but some of it read like like filler and I skipped over a lot.
Hmmm, I've been not reading A Peace to End All Peace, which is an excellent book but just not grabbing me. Perhaps it's just that from the early part of the book it's clear the monumental stupidity of the European powers is going to screw things up in perpetuity, and thus the rest of it rads like piling on. So, I put it down halfway and picked up Rivers of Gold. Nothing provocative, but gives nice summary insight into the working of the Spanish court under Fernando and Isabel.
And Tim, happy (!!!) reading for your comps. What I remember from that semester of my life was not being able to use the dining room table, because it was stacked with my "areas of focus."
Reading: A People's History of Science - I'm on the way to being a science teacher and am trying to develop as accurate a picture of the history as I can; Steven Brust's Jhereg series (I read very little fiction, so I'm devouring it with amazement at how fast it goes compared to the dense stuff I'm used to); and I'm about to pick up from the library Making Indian Bows and Arrows, which I've had on hold all summer.
Not Reading: Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Place and Community in a Global Age - it's right up my alley and very interesting, but it was the last dense thing I had started before I rediscovered the novel, and I haven't picked it back up yet.
Just a heads-up on the God of Small Things--don't read it in conjunction with, say, The Kite Runner, or any other book that suggests or actually contains some sort of cruelty to children. I blazed through several books when I was traveling last spring, and I went into a severe funk after having read The God of Small Things immediately after The Kite Runner. Both of these require some leavening.
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