Wednesdays Fall Apart
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evelyn_bWhy is it taking five weeks to type up a list of the books I read in 2020? you may be wondering. Or not; you may have other things on your mind besides the Annual Past Year Books Retrospective at evelyn_b. Regardless, "by the end of January" still counts as the New Year, as far as I'm concerned.
What I've Been Reading
Wolf Hall:
Quichotte:
Both pretty good so far. Wolf Hall had me eyeing its writing style suspiciously in the first five pages, and by the first ten I was totally on board. Quichotte is a lot of Salman Rushdie being extremely Rushdie and maybe because it's been a while I'm completely on board for that, too.
New Books Appear in the Little Free Library
Some sort of cat-comics thing, an extremely fat Dragonlance novel, a Stephen King of medium thickness, a very battered true crime paperback called Blood and Money (I took this one home to check it out) and a few others have turned up over the past few days. I didn't put them there. This is an exciting development.
Next Week
A better post, I hope!
What I've Been Reading
Wolf Hall:
The king says, you have a good arm, a good eye. He says disparagingly, oh, at this distance. We have a match every Sunday, he says, my household. We go to Paul's for the sermon and then out to Moorfields, we meet up with our fellow guildsmen and destroy the butchers and the grocers, and then we have a dinner together. We have grudge matches with the vinters. . .
Henry turns to him, impulsive: what if I came with you one week? If I came in disguise? The Commons would like it, would they not? I could shoot for you. A king should show himself, sometimes, don't you feel? It would be amusing, yes?
Not very, he thinks. He cannot swear to it, but he thinks there are tears in Henry's eyes. "For sure we would win," he says. It is what you would say to a child. "The vinters would be roaring like bears."
Quichotte:
To be a lawyer in a lawless time was like being a clown among the humorless: which was to say, either completely redundant or absolutely essential.
Both pretty good so far. Wolf Hall had me eyeing its writing style suspiciously in the first five pages, and by the first ten I was totally on board. Quichotte is a lot of Salman Rushdie being extremely Rushdie and maybe because it's been a while I'm completely on board for that, too.
New Books Appear in the Little Free Library
Some sort of cat-comics thing, an extremely fat Dragonlance novel, a Stephen King of medium thickness, a very battered true crime paperback called Blood and Money (I took this one home to check it out) and a few others have turned up over the past few days. I didn't put them there. This is an exciting development.
Next Week
A better post, I hope!
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