Category: reading
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Getting ready for a three-week journey, I’m thinking about fresh ways to think. In that, I’m helped along by writer Pico Iyer, a fascinating author who at first blush seems to be writing about travel, but has something to say about various qualities of human experience. Here are a couple of quotes to give a…
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Yesterday, with the hubris of someone who conceives a grand plan without considering what a pain in the butt it will be to accomplish, I announced I would try reading a French detective novel in French as a way to improve my very sketchy language skills. Here’s what that looks like. The paragraph below is…
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Woke up thinking about British novelist Wilkie Collins, and his fine 1860s-era detective novel The Moonstone, which I’ve read a few times. There’s a delightful side character in the book who finds solace and wisdom for daily life in rereading the novel Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719). I couldn’t remember where The Moonstone lived in…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 