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beppe · 04-03-2010, 01:27 PM

A new reading cycle for me. It goes with the season: the ever increasing garden chores plus other curricular obligations (my wife is urging me to read Mothers Are Never Wrong by Giovanni Bollea so that I can stay in step with her efforts with the small ones in the family. It is a pbook and I will be forced to read it on the train, in competition with the paper that right after the midterm elections is full of juicy stuff).

I moved The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel to the back burner. That's one of the advantages of ereaders for us modern people. All of us - and not only the owner of a library with a full set of accessories, inclusive of manservant to light the lamps, stack the fireplace and keep the decanter at the ready - can read everywhere everything and whenever we fancy (if there is a plug). The sudden passion for Augustinus that hit me around Xmas has settled down to daily seeds more emotional-spiritual than rational-intellectual. I have used Russel for backgrounding the background of Augustine.

Reading Present Tense by Wallace has satisfied me enormously but it has left my brain buds exhausted and saturated. Now I am attracted by something softer. (I am not giving up Wallace: I might try something that can be read in steps like Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) of which I have read and admired the first three, before tackling the novels).

When my mind is dulled by having read something very strong, or by real worries (which does not happen since long time, thank you dear Power Above, and let's keep it this way, please and if so pleases you), I either read science fiction or crime in a very wide sense that includes war, espionage, detectives, ..

I choose Declarations of War (1971) of Len Deighton which I read 40 years ago, and found it very nice at that time. This is re reading. Let's see if I still enjoy it. The first pages are good and I do not remember them.

I am taking a very daring step toward the unknown. I am starting a new author, with a serie (very reassuring a serie). A certain Daniel Silva. I bought his first: The Unlikely Spy (1996).

I started The Life of Pi. Recommended by my wife as bizarre, funny and captivating.

Finally I want to read for the BookClub The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald.

A little byte at the time. Maybe one of these will catch me fast enough so that I will read it all by itself without interruptions.

04-03-2010, 01:27 PM	#4418
beppe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,161 Karma: 81026524 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Italy Device: Kindle3, Ipod4, IPad2	A new reading cycle A new reading cycle for me. It goes with the season: the ever increasing garden chores plus other curricular obligations (my wife is urging me to read Mothers Are Never Wrong by Giovanni Bollea so that I can stay in step with her efforts with the small ones in the family. It is a pbook and I will be forced to read it on the train, in competition with the paper that right after the midterm elections is full of juicy stuff). I moved The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel to the back burner. That's one of the advantages of ereaders for us modern people. All of us - and not only the owner of a library with a full set of accessories, inclusive of manservant to light the lamps, stack the fireplace and keep the decanter at the ready - can read everywhere everything and whenever we fancy (if there is a plug). The sudden passion for Augustinus that hit me around Xmas has settled down to daily seeds more emotional-spiritual than rational-intellectual. I have used Russel for backgrounding the background of Augustine. Reading Present Tense by Wallace has satisfied me enormously but it has left my brain buds exhausted and saturated. Now I am attracted by something softer. (I am not giving up Wallace: I might try something that can be read in steps like Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) of which I have read and admired the first three, before tackling the novels). When my mind is dulled by having read something very strong, or by real worries (which does not happen since long time, thank you dear Power Above, and let's keep it this way, please and if so pleases you), I either read science fiction or crime in a very wide sense that includes war, espionage, detectives, .. I choose Declarations of War (1971) of Len Deighton which I read 40 years ago, and found it very nice at that time. This is re reading. Let's see if I still enjoy it. The first pages are good and I do not remember them. I am taking a very daring step toward the unknown. I am starting a new author, with a serie (very reassuring a serie). A certain Daniel Silva. I bought his first: The Unlikely Spy (1996). I started The Life of Pi. Recommended by my wife as bizarre, funny and captivating. Finally I want to read for the BookClub The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald. A little byte at the time. Maybe one of these will catch me fast enough so that I will read it all by itself without interruptions.