Note to self
by chuckofish
I felt my spirits rise when I had got off the road into the open fields, and the sky had a new appearance. I stepped along more buoyantly. There was a warm sunset over the wooded valleys, a yellowish tinge on the pines. Reddish dun-colored clouds like dusky flames stood over it. And then streaks of blue sky were seen here and there. The life, the joy, that is in blue sky after a storm! There is no account of the blue sky in history. Before I walked in the ruts of travel; now I adventured.
Henry David Thoreau, Journals, Jan. 7, 1851
Oh so many books to read (and re-read) in 2013! Do you have a pile of new books to read in January?
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I love that “To the Lighthouse” is in your pile! I had a Viriginia Woolf reading marathon this summer, and that was by far my favorite. Maybe you can post about it when you are finished?
Another one that I read last year that I thought might interest you (and be timely, if you are still planning on heading to Wyoming this year) is Gretel Ehrlich’s “The Solace of Open Spaces”. Have you heard of/read that one? It has a great lonely cowboy feeling to it.
I just started “The Ambassadors” by Henry James, and I admit that I’m not too impressed by the first few chapters. But January seems like a good time for reading long, wordy books, so I guess I’ll push through!
Happy new year!
I really love “To the Lighthouse” but found it deserved more concentration than I could muster during the holidays, so I put it aside halfway through for lighter fare. (I will pick it up again soon!) I will definitely read Ehrlich’s book–sounds right up my alley. As for James, you either love him or don’t!
Happy New Year to you!
Everyone has such piles of books to read! I need one.
Now it’s back to work so I’m reading “Rome and the Sword” and a biography of Julius Caesar — both good reading though!
Oh you fortunate Scholars!! Someone just handed me a signed(!!) copy of “Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics” which describes how to persuade a listener by carefully selecting words in your sales speech.
Which probably isn’t all hat different from Virginia Woolf or Henry James after all.
I have a pile of about 40 books to read before my qualifying exam in June. Of course, those aren’t for fun, per se, but most of them will be very interesting!