Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
I abandoned T. W. S. Hunt’s Winter with God, because it turned out to include quite a lot of discussion of U2 songs, which is not what the summary on NetGalley led me to expect. Not that I have anything against U2 - I like their music - I’m just not interested in reading about it at length, especially not when a lot of what I’m reading is not the author’s own individual thoughts about U2 but quotes from other reviewers about the emotional/spiritual power of their songs.
In an odd way I wanted this to be both a more personal book - to include more of Hunt’s own thoughts about getting through dark spiritual times - but also a less personal one; his choice to focus on U2 and C. S. Lewis so intently seems idiosyncratic, like he’s writing about the things that helped him personally in a time of grief and assuming that the power they had for him is universal.
Basically I think this would have made an interesting blog, but needed more digestion before becoming a book.
What I’m Reading Now
Still working on Caroline Winterer’s American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason, which I will review at more length later.
I’ve also started reading 1917: Poems and Stories from the Russian Revolution, which suffers somewhat from the fact that Kindle is terrible at poetry - it can’t preserve the line breaks or special formatting or anything. However I am persevering; I don’t know as much about the Russian Revolution as I should, and the historical tidbits I’m picking up are fun.
What I Plan to Read Next
I’ve been sort of sucked down the NetGalley rabbit hole, so I’m trying to request fewer books there so I’ll have time to read paper books again too. I’m planning to read the Night Vale novel for my October reading challenge, as soon as the library gets it to me.
I abandoned T. W. S. Hunt’s Winter with God, because it turned out to include quite a lot of discussion of U2 songs, which is not what the summary on NetGalley led me to expect. Not that I have anything against U2 - I like their music - I’m just not interested in reading about it at length, especially not when a lot of what I’m reading is not the author’s own individual thoughts about U2 but quotes from other reviewers about the emotional/spiritual power of their songs.
In an odd way I wanted this to be both a more personal book - to include more of Hunt’s own thoughts about getting through dark spiritual times - but also a less personal one; his choice to focus on U2 and C. S. Lewis so intently seems idiosyncratic, like he’s writing about the things that helped him personally in a time of grief and assuming that the power they had for him is universal.
Basically I think this would have made an interesting blog, but needed more digestion before becoming a book.
What I’m Reading Now
Still working on Caroline Winterer’s American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason, which I will review at more length later.
I’ve also started reading 1917: Poems and Stories from the Russian Revolution, which suffers somewhat from the fact that Kindle is terrible at poetry - it can’t preserve the line breaks or special formatting or anything. However I am persevering; I don’t know as much about the Russian Revolution as I should, and the historical tidbits I’m picking up are fun.
What I Plan to Read Next
I’ve been sort of sucked down the NetGalley rabbit hole, so I’m trying to request fewer books there so I’ll have time to read paper books again too. I’m planning to read the Night Vale novel for my October reading challenge, as soon as the library gets it to me.
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Date: 2016-10-05 07:43 pm (UTC)