A Restorative Brattle Bookshop Visit!
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I'm glad that the Brattle could Provide some solace for you today, and an Agatha Christie and some solace. I know what you mean about being in the stacks, I feel calmer just walking in a bookshop.
Essential for a clever well-read Bostonian: The Big House by George Howe Colt, Cape Cod in years past 😮
I added an Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express) to my July TBR in memory of the amazing Alice. Radio Planet has a great cover. Good to hear the Brattle continues to provide bibliotherapy.
I like that translation of the Iliad! Which one did you just read? And which is your favorite translation?
I always smile when you show a book that also is in my home library. In this case, it’s the Shakespeare volume with the Rockwell Kent illustrations, which I inherited from my grandmother. Though usually when I want to read a Shakespeare play, I will go after a Signet paperback.
The only John Barth novel I attempted to read was _Giles Goat Boy,_ lent to me by a coworker once. I could just not get into it, what with the meta-prefaces and quasi-editorial material at the start, engineered to get _my_ goat.
The Killer Thing! I love that book.
As soon as Steve held it up I thought “Hey! Michael has that book.” 😀
I love the Barbara Holloway series by Kate Wilhelm. Definitely need to try her SF!!
Well, Steve, you have me beat by a little: two Collected Shakespeares in three weeks? A few days ago, I just picked up another Collected Shakespeare, making two in two months for me, and five of them in total around the house. I think there may be something wrong with me....
Vasari died 450 years ago yesterday.
One of the major criticisms of Barth was that he was too self-referential and self-indulgent. I loved “Chimera”
and “The End of the Road.”
Wait! What? When and why did she die?!