Finished reading: Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by Martin Gayford 📚
My current employment contract ends May 19th, with no new contract on the horizon. The release date for the new Legend of Zelda game is May 12th. This is either incredibly good or incredibly bad timing.
I’m excited about Apple’s new classical music app. I hope they make an ipad version because this is just stupid.
Currently reading: A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux 📚
For a French lit bookclub! Discussion in April.
I like this from Oliver Burkeman:
“…this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).”
Though I have no children, I look forward—in 10 to 15 years—to sartorially entering my kindly grandfather phase, complete with flat cap and knitted cardigan.
Want to read: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 📚
I’ll be starting Inferno soon for an upcoming online bookclub meetup. Excited!
Finished reading: Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces by Jenny Erpenbeck 📚
On IG I regularly post to a “bookstagram” account at neil.reads. I realized a good way to get more use out of my fairly new micro.blog would be to put my IG posts here as well (which would also cross-post to mastodon). Even though I have no audience on micro.blog posting my IG stuff here first would help me build this blog into something more than it would be otherwise.
Cyclettes is a memoir—part travelogue, part philosophical musing constructed around the framework of bikes and cycling that have been a constant throughout the author’s life. Interspersed throughout the book along side the text are plenty of photos, diagrams, charts. It’s an interesting read so far. This is borrowed from the library but I think l’Il pick up my own copy when l’m done.
