It’s a wet looking Wednesday. With tonight’s solar flares and Aurora Borealis, Toronto has bleak chances of catching this spectacular show, thanks to the cloud cover. Ah well, that view remains on the bucket list since I can’t fight the clouds!
Anyways, with last week’s art show, life was a bit busy. Which means my reading speed suffered tremendously. I am definitely not finishing this Friday’s bookclub read (also because book club is happening a week earlier in the month than it usually does), but I am slowly reading the book and enjoying it. So I will keep on reading even after the book club, and maybe be a little more vigilant to it’s deeper meanings from having attended it’s discussion on Friday. That is a beautiful thing about my bookclub- one can attend without having read or finished the book…and we are all welcome.
And since I haven’t mentioned, we are reading Kate Quinn’s The Briar Club.
I do have plans to read a few more things this month continuing into the next month:
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (I enjoyed his book Quality of Light so much that I want to read more by him)- also a movie now
- The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (my last play for the year! Next month I read a long poem by WS)
- How To See: Looking, Talking and Thinking About Art by David Salle (more of a professional read for me)
In terms of audiobooks, I am currently listening to The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson. This is an interesting non-fiction of the changing food habits of humans over time, and specifically in the last 2 decades, and it’s impact on cultures and humanity.
After this, I plan to listen to Claire Keegan’s short stories collection Walk the Blue Fields and The Year of Less by Cait Flanders.
I guess that should round up my month for books.
I still haven’t landed on my big classic read and listen for December. Since I don’t have bookclub book in December or a Shakespeare play to read, and more time during the holidays, I like digging in to some big/important read each year. Last year, I read Vanity Fair, and before that Crime and Punishment. War and Peace and Don Quixote have also made appearances in my classic read series in previous years. I have a few choices but I still have to pick one. Hopefully, I will know soon 🙂
And in the meantime…lets keep reading!