Tuesday, September 02, 2008
My Reading Life All Ahoo
Father Z. got me thinking about reading, with his post on finishing Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels in audio.
For someone used to crashing through about 200 books a year, the last year or so has been dreadfully empty of books. I just completed the annual selected re-read of Brideshead Revisited. But beyond that, I haven't picked up anything recently. Time has really constricted my reading of late. I'm not happy about it, but the alternative is to not sleep. And I like sleep. It is sort of a necessity.
Here are a few titles I want to get into in the near future, the good Lord willin' and the crick don't rise:
The Faithful Departed, by Phil Lawler
Feasts and Seasons, by Joanna Bogle
Voices of Morebath, by Eamon Duffy
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription, by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Sharpe's Fury, by Bernard Cornwell
With Zeal And With Bayonets Only, by Matthew H. Spring
Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
In Search Of Ghosts, by James Wentworth Day
Dubliners, by James Joyce
The Crossing, by David Hackett Fisher
And don't I wish I even get to read 2 of the 10!
For someone used to crashing through about 200 books a year, the last year or so has been dreadfully empty of books. I just completed the annual selected re-read of Brideshead Revisited. But beyond that, I haven't picked up anything recently. Time has really constricted my reading of late. I'm not happy about it, but the alternative is to not sleep. And I like sleep. It is sort of a necessity.
Here are a few titles I want to get into in the near future, the good Lord willin' and the crick don't rise:
The Faithful Departed, by Phil Lawler
Feasts and Seasons, by Joanna Bogle
Voices of Morebath, by Eamon Duffy
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription, by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Sharpe's Fury, by Bernard Cornwell
With Zeal And With Bayonets Only, by Matthew H. Spring
Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
In Search Of Ghosts, by James Wentworth Day
Dubliners, by James Joyce
The Crossing, by David Hackett Fisher
And don't I wish I even get to read 2 of the 10!
Labels: Bookish Considerations
