Reading report
My reading year concludes on the 30th. Or, rather, on the 1st (a few years ago, I decided I could have a “day of grace”).
Books to finish (I’m behind):
Anyway, if certain blog entries strike you as perfunctory, you can guess what is occupying me instead. (Actually, I might be brushing up on titles by Agatha Christie, typing them out for this quiz. I know all the titles but have trouble recalling them in one sitting. Once, I remembered all of them except [a] the novel I’d just finished and [b] And Then There Were None.)
I was finishing books at a regular clip until December, and then Abel was born.
Books to finish (I’m behind):
- Christie, Towards Zero, which I’m rereading because there’s a new TV miniseries
- Forster, The Eternal Moment and Other Stories
- Garner, The Stone Book Quartet – this month’s “fantasy” choice: much less fantastical than I was led to believe, but no worse for that
- Dante, Paradiso, which I should have finished years ago
- Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, for the reading group
- Homer, Odyssey, last month’s “fantasy” choice – and the preceding month’s, and the preceding month’s. … It’s not that I don’t like it – it’s great – I just keep switching, mid-month, to other fantasy books
- O’Brien, The Third Policeman, which I should have finished years ago; also fantastical; also brilliant (a book’s quality is no guarantee that I’ll finish it promptly)
- Powell, Temporary Kings and Hearing Secret Harmonies, the last two books of A Dance to the Music of Time (a “warm-up” for reading Proust next year)
- Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth, a “warm-up” (pun intended) for next year’s “weather disaster” reading
Anyway, if certain blog entries strike you as perfunctory, you can guess what is occupying me instead. (Actually, I might be brushing up on titles by Agatha Christie, typing them out for this quiz. I know all the titles but have trouble recalling them in one sitting. Once, I remembered all of them except [a] the novel I’d just finished and [b] And Then There Were None.)
I was finishing books at a regular clip until December, and then Abel was born.