Jana, I envy you! I’m behind on book club reading, per usual, and I also picked up a copy of Emily Dickinson Face to Face, written by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi (I think someone recommended this during the Dickinson club?). Anyway, it’s an embarrassment of reading riches!
Scored a last minute ticket! I’m bringing Wolf Hall and a new library book: Happy by Celina Baljeet Basra. I gave a copy to my step-daughter for Christmas. Based on a friend’s recommendation.
I’m caught up on Great Expectations, so I’ll leave Dickens resting comfortably at home.
I'm not entirely in love with the book that I'm reading right now which is "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt, but I'll likely read some of it and maybe switch to a new book that I'm itching to start called "Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies" (pie + history = sounds perfect!)
Tonight’s choices vary from Alan Moore’s “Jerusalem” about his hometown Northampton, Kate Quinn’s “The Huntress” , or Helene Tunsten’s “An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good”.
I'm reading The Book of Rosy ... A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo. I'm just starting it today but have been looking forward to it.
Is there a SRP tonight? I don’t have it on my calendar and I don’t know if I snagged a ticket if there is one this evening. Any suggestions how I can check, short of showing up at the Fireside Room and ordering a drink? Which is always a good plan B...Rebecca T
He’s still with us and sharp as ever! He always cracks me up with his saucy opinions about writers. I think they’re too saucy to type here.
He’s also been writing poetry and it’s amazing — and understandable (so much poetry is inscrutable, but his isn’t) — and I sat there at his dinner table listening to him read poems and going “you’re writing poems now?” and begging him to publish them.
We also talked about Foucault (a friend of his—there’s a pic of them together on his wall), Genet (he treasures his first addition of Thief’s Journal in French), and the two (TWO!) new books Ed has coming out next year, one of them a sex memoir (sure to be saucy as all get out).
I brought him a red velvet birthday cake shaped & frosted like a gift 🎁 because he is a gift to this world…
Jana, I envy you! I’m behind on book club reading, per usual, and I also picked up a copy of Emily Dickinson Face to Face, written by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi (I think someone recommended this during the Dickinson club?). Anyway, it’s an embarrassment of reading riches!
How’s that Dickinson book? Sounds very cool
Still reading the intro! But I’ll let you know. 🤓
I am reading Kafka Metamorphosis
A classic! Poor guy. When his family throws the apple at him? ooof
Scored a last minute ticket! I’m bringing Wolf Hall and a new library book: Happy by Celina Baljeet Basra. I gave a copy to my step-daughter for Christmas. Based on a friend’s recommendation.
I’m caught up on Great Expectations, so I’ll leave Dickens resting comfortably at home.
Glad you scored a ticket! Was fun seeing you last night
I'm not entirely in love with the book that I'm reading right now which is "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt, but I'll likely read some of it and maybe switch to a new book that I'm itching to start called "Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies" (pie + history = sounds perfect!)
I love bringing several options to the party and switching it up
Tonight’s choices vary from Alan Moore’s “Jerusalem” about his hometown Northampton, Kate Quinn’s “The Huntress” , or Helene Tunsten’s “An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good”.
I'm reading The Book of Rosy ... A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo. I'm just starting it today but have been looking forward to it.
Is there a SRP tonight? I don’t have it on my calendar and I don’t know if I snagged a ticket if there is one this evening. Any suggestions how I can check, short of showing up at the Fireside Room and ordering a drink? Which is always a good plan B...Rebecca T
There is no party tonight. Next one is Saturday brunch. But I fully support your plan!
I will be there Saturday! I’m reading Middlemarch. Still contemplating book club: is it too late?
Join us!! Not too late. I’m about to put up a “last chance to join us” post
I just saw Ed last week in NYC!
He’s still with us and sharp as ever! He always cracks me up with his saucy opinions about writers. I think they’re too saucy to type here.
He’s also been writing poetry and it’s amazing — and understandable (so much poetry is inscrutable, but his isn’t) — and I sat there at his dinner table listening to him read poems and going “you’re writing poems now?” and begging him to publish them.
We also talked about Foucault (a friend of his—there’s a pic of them together on his wall), Genet (he treasures his first addition of Thief’s Journal in French), and the two (TWO!) new books Ed has coming out next year, one of them a sex memoir (sure to be saucy as all get out).
I brought him a red velvet birthday cake shaped & frosted like a gift 🎁 because he is a gift to this world…