📚 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!

📚Finished Reading: Let Evening Come, Jane Kenyon.

Really enjoyed this collection, the second of Kenyon’s I’ve read this year. It could be described as “depressed Annie Dillard writes poetry,” lots of natural imagery and close observation.

Let it come, as it will, and don’t be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

📚Finished Reading: Living Life Backwards, David Gibson.

Read this with a group of guys from church and met weekly to discuss it. It’s a compelling interpretation of Ecclesiastes and easily the best book from Crossway I’ve ever read.

📚Finished Reading: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle.

I somehow missed this book as a child, but would have absolutely loved it when I was about 12. I loved it now, what a delightful book.

📚Finished Reading: The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

📚Finished Reading (well, listening on a road trip): Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green.

Very interesting book on our oldest infectious disease. Great for a road trip audio book.