It's that time of year again: that regular annual ritual of weeding out my book stack to fit into my holiday book sack.
Or do you just take a bigger sack?
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Christmas reading
It's that time of year again: that regular annual ritual of weeding out my book stack to fit into my holiday book sack.
Or do you just take a bigger sack?
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ReplyDeleteIf it wasn't for ebooks, I wouldn't be able to carry them all (regardless of the size of sack). Now I just need the time ...
ReplyDeleteI've been on a Patrick O'Brian kick recently.
ReplyDeleteI also second Martin English's vote for ebooks. They really make pleasure reading easier. I keep a tablet by my chair in the living room, so I can read while my wife watches TV. Then I can take my library with me while I travel for work, and read in the hotel room. It's not so good for research--I've yet to find a way to take notes/make marginal comments in an ebook that's worth a damn, and cross-referencing books is impossible--but for personal enjoyment it really does make life easier.
"The Executioners Song" - Norman Mailer
ReplyDelete"The Progressive Era" - Murray Rothbard
"Explaining Post-Modernism" - Stephen Hicks
I've seen these piles of books that you claim as your holiday reading a number of times now and the same thoughts spring to my mind every year:
ReplyDelete* You read a lot of books on the same subjects.
* You must have amazingly long holidays.
* You must be a speed reader.
* You don't read all those books.
There are roughly 34 books in the picture.
Given the average 2 week holiday, that's about 2 books a day.
Given a month, it's a book a day. That's amazing stamina.
"... the same thoughts spring to my mind every year..."
DeleteAs they do in mine, i.e., what space I give to books leaves less over for beer. A fearful conundrum!
"You read a lot of books on the same subjects."
Do I?
"You must have amazingly long holidays."
I wish.
"You must be a speed reader."
It's a curse.
"You don't read all those books."
Not if I can't fit them all in my book sack I can't.
So what have you been reading, Craig, o'er these overcast bucolic days?
Well played! My pitiful holiday / Christmas reading consisted of the following:
DeleteThe Folio Anthology of Essays : Selected by Frank Delaney
The James Bond Dossier : Kingsley Amis
Jude the Obscure : Thomas Hardy
The Golden Bough : James George Frazer (finished this at the start of December).
Journey by Moonlight : Antal Szerb
...and since my holidays have one week to go...
Albion: Origins of the English Imagination : Peter Ackroyd