Reading
Currently reading: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles π
I recently found & ordered a nice used copy of Audenβs For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio.
It arrived today; I was delighted to discover that it came from the library of the Anglican writer & priest Fleming Rutledge. π
Rise at dawn, and read something that matters as soon as you can.
~Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles by Harold Bloom
Challenge accepted, Professor Bloom. π
Currently reading: Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles by Harold Bloom π
Finished reading: Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage. Iβll have more to say about this remarkable translation. π
Currently reading: Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & Fragments by Franz Wright π
Finished reading: Bells in Winter by CzesΕaw MiΕosz π
Currently reading: Bells in Winter by CzesΕaw MiΕosz, at Zippel Bay State Park up on Lake of the Woods, far northern Minnesota. π
Finished reading: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth π
Finished reading: In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley. The pre-Socratics as youβve never seen them before. (Plato & Aristotle are the villains.) π
Finished reading: Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. A much stranger & more interesting book than I remembered! π
Currently reading: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth π
Between the bookstore, Bandcamp, & the good olβ USPS, Christmas came early for me today! πΆπ
Currently reading: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow π
Currently reading: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II by Marcel Proust π
Currently reading: The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han π
Finished reading: Frost: Poems by Robert Frost.
I donβt think I ever really realized how powerful & profound Frost isβuntil this reading. The simplicity of his diction both masks & reveals a vision of strange, silent, often terrifying loneliness, along with rare moments of profound connection with other people & the natural world. I will be returning to Frost much more regularly in the future. π