📚Finished Reading: The Odyssey, Homer (Trans. Robert Fitzgerald)

Great book, you should read it.

Not sure what I expected, but this was just pure fun. It’s the original fun summer read. And yes, I do have IMAX tickets later this week.

📚 Finished Reading: The Psychology of Imagination, Jean-Paul Sartre.

Several books I’ve read recently interacted with portions of this so I decided to go to the source. A bit of a chore to read (definitely out of my wheelhouse) but lots of insightful bits as well.

📚Finished Reading: 1,000 Chairs.

Not a book you might say you read, exactly, but I did read every word. Conclusion: being in a book does not make you a good chair. At least 500 were hideous, less than 100 I thought were worthwhile. Also confimed my dislike of Italian Modernism.

📚 Finished Reading: Theo of Golden, Allen Levi.

Lovely, but not my cup of literary tea. I think this says more about my own difficulty being warmed and filled than anything else. Bigger hearted friends love this book and I completely get it.

📚Finished Reading: Places I’ve Taken My Body, Molly McCully Brown.

Great book of essays on her life with cerebral palsy, including one of my all-time favorites, Bent Body, Lamb. Which you should read, but only when you have the time and space to digest it.

📚 Finished Reading; Music, Imagination, & Culture, Nicholas Cook.

He had me from the first line: “The main theme of this books is the difference between how people think or talk about music on the one hand, and how it is experienced on the other.”

📚Finished Reading: The Fields of Praise, New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Nelson.

As I said to someone earlier, distill all the intensity and beauty of a Toni Morrison novel into a poem and you get Marilyn Nelson. Not easy-reading stuff, but incredibly powerful.

📚Finished Reading: Galahad and the Grail, Malcolm Guite.

I don’t think I’ve read an epic poem since I last read Beowulf. What great fun.

📚Finished Reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

Just unbelievable. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such an amazing collection of sentences and pages in one book.

📚Finished Reading: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl.

Raucous fun for both me and E all the way through (and much weirder than I remember it). The last time I read it I didn’t appreciate the send up of the president’s cabinet, but it is truly hilarious. And… Vermicious Knids!