Sunny Days, Sunny Reading

[jazzy_dave]

After the middling day we had on Tuesday the weather has turned out to be gloriously sunny and very warm. I did some sunbathing outside in the gardens of the hostel and finished reading the short Atwood book of vignettes.

Not much else to say about the day really - might have alot more to say about tomorrow when it comes. After the busy Monday my next busy day will be on Saturday and then some major days next wee., So this is just the quiescence before the storm metaphorically speaking.

Loads of charity shop visits coming up after months of being quiet, so expect an expansion of books, and music here. I know that after speaking to bro today he has more books to give me when i see him for the lunch club tomorrow. We are slightly over halfway through the year so i could well achieve the eighty books read easily before Xmas.

I am already onto book number 54 - another short one but fascinating none the less. I have just a couple of massive tomes on the bookshelf to attempt at some point - Wolf Hall and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

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[goodliver.livejournal.com]

Wolf Hall! I read that book and Bringing Up the Bodies twice last year. Hilary Mantel is one of my favorite writers although I sense her political world view is antithetical to my own. Ideology be damned, who can resist genius. This spring, as Morton was waking up to public radio (his daily habit), I heard someone say "The long awaited sequel. . ." and jumped out of bed with excitement hoping he would say "to the Hilary Mantel's trilogy". To my disappointment he was announcing the advent of Go set A Watchman by Harper Lee, a book I'll probably never get to due to my constant re-reading of old favorites

And you know how I feel about Jonathan Strange.