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Just finished reading The Martian. Great read for anyone even somewhat interested in space, astronomy, science, etc. It's pretty short too.
Just finished reading The Martian. Great read for anyone even somewhat interested in space, astronomy, science, etc. It's pretty short too.
Just started A Canticle for Leibowitz over the weekend. I'm enjoying it so far. Anyone else read it? I'd never heard of it until a friend recommended it.
Gotta give a shout out to a young adult book written by my buddy's wife that just released today. My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
Finally got around to Don Quixote last month, and finished it this week. Not my absolute favorite, but I enjoyed it, and can see why it gained the reputation it did. Cervantes was certainly pissed about the spurious part two, which I had no idea existed.
Speaking of which, found this while looking up information about the book.
Did you have much trouble with the Spanish?
Ha. Part of the reason I was waiting so long to read it was that I was hoping to tackle it in Spanish one day (took half a dozen Spanish classes at Wake and was at one time decent at it). Eight years of not practicing the language later, I caved and got the Edith Grossman translation.
LOL. Same here. Still waiting and hoping. Spanish not getting any better.
I was hanging in the meadow yesterday and my buddy was reading some choice passages from Annie Dillard stuff. Man, they really grabbed me. I loved her essay Total Eclipse which I read the other week before I knew a total eclipse was on the horizon -- has anyone read any? Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, the collection Teaching a Stone to Talk? It all sounded good, I'm going after it after I read this Thomas Mann collection I'm into now.
PS -- Dharma Bums really fucked with me. My friend and I went on a hike yesterday to meditate and be in nature like Ray and Japhy -- he's prepping for doing some of the Muir Trail this summer and now I wish I was going.
I was hanging in the meadow yesterday and my buddy was reading some choice passages from Annie Dillard stuff.