I joined a slow read of this tome on Substack, one chapter a day for the entire year (chapters are only 3 or 4 pages each.) Four down, 357 to go.
war and peace
Tag: books
The Finkler Question
This is a book I know I’ll appreciate more after we discuss it in book group. While I found it laugh-out-loud funny in places, I felt that the characters and issues would be more relatable if I were Jewish, or even Jewish-adjacent. As a good proportion of our book group members are, I’m sure they’ll give me insights I am currently lacking. Maybe then I can tease out the nuances between Jewishness and Judaism and Zionism.
back to bart’s
After a visit to the bike shop, I stopped in at Bart’s for a sketch’n’browse. These two vintage lovelies came home with me. Both have gorgeous typography on the covers, to which I have not done justice.
currently reading
wuthering
How long since you read this classic?
According to Italo Calvino*, “Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.” Also “A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.”
If it’s been a while, maybe it’s time for a re-read!
*Why Read the Classics, 2001
back to bart’s
I went back to Bart’s Books today, to pick up a title I should have nabbed yesterday. Then of course I found three more that had to come home with me. How lucky am I, to live near “the world’s greatest outdoor bookstore”?
tenderheart
It’s my birthday, and my heart feels tender.
current read
I really loved The Overstory and this one seems be following the same format—various individuals character‘s stories which I assume will all intertwine at the end, but this time underwater rather than in the treetops. I‘m liking it!
hard by a great forest
I recently perused NPR’s list of best books from 2024, sorting by the tag “Seriously Great Writing”. I put a handful on hold at the library and have been reading them as they come in. I really liked this one, set mostly in Georgia (Europe). Time to put a few more on hold!
birthday book
Looking forward to getting my hands dirty with this one.
hashiworks 