Sometimes my body really amazes me. It knows when I need a rest. And I needed a rest so badly coming up on the four-day weekend that began last Thursday that it decided to force me into it by coming down with a truly terrible cold. I had big reading and blogging plans for this weekend. They did not happen.
I did manage to finish off White-Jacket, which I enjoyed lots more than Redburn. And now that my cold seems to be clearing up just in time for me to work this week, maybe I’ll feel up to writing about them soon. I’m trying to decide whether to have a bit of a break now, before reading Moby-Dick, or after. I’m thinking before, but I have so little time for reading at the moment it hardly seems to matter.
Oh, and, a few Christmas highlights:
- Great British Journeys by Nicholas Crane
- Fitzgerald & Hemingway: works and days by Scott Donaldson
- Randall Jarrell’s Book of Stories
- Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Hope you are feeling better now! Great Christmas highlights especially that Donaldson. He was one of my professors as an undergrad English major, and I loved his classes. I loved that office of his even more on the top floor of the building with beautiful windows and piles and piles of books. Happy memory.
That’s so cool! I was flipping through the TOC last night and trying really, really hard not to start it when I’m in the middle of several other books. Especially when it’s the kind of thing that will trigger a bunch of other reads. Now that I think of it, I was already considering a re-read of Gatsby…