What are you reading tonight?
Share what you're reading at tonight's Silent Reading Party in the comments
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How to attend tonight’s party virtually
If you’re not in Seattle — or if you are but didn’t get reservations at the sold-out Sorrento party — you may still join us from the comfort of home.
We broadcast the live reading party music over Zoom. If you are a paid subscriber here, click here to find that Zoom link.
If you are a free subscriber here, you will have to buy a virtual ticket to join us.
How to show our piano player some extra love
It’s harder than it looks to play piano for two hours straight.
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What are you reading?
I’m dying to know! Put it in the comments.
I’m a bit late to the party but I really want to share the book I’m reading anyway because I just love it and think everyone needs to read it! I’m rereading The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks - it’s my second read of it because I finished it recently and started writing a piece on it, so I’ve been reading it again to gather my quotations and gain more depth of understanding. It’s an absolutely beautiful book set in 1960s London and was out of print for years. Penguin only recently brought it back into circulation with an introduction by Stewart Lee. Anyway I am just completely intoxicated by the story and the style of writing, and Tonks herself is completely fascinating as well. I’ve also been reading through the detailed piece of writing Neil Astley (editor of Bloodaxe books) wrote and included in Bedouin of a London Evening, which collects all of her poetry and some essays and short stories. I am completely obsessed with her, and I hope she’s gaining more popularity now that Neil Astley has put so much work into making her more known! The Bloater flits between the three different aspects that are forming the time in a young woman’s life in London, over a short period of time; her job at the BBC where she is working on the creation of an artificial heartbeat; her conversations with her love-tortured and loveable best friend Jenny; and the confusion she is battling with due to her inexplicable attraction to her lodger, an opera singer who she finds repulsive but finds herself inexplicably attracted to him. It’s about the life of a Romantic in 1960s London but is a timeless account and exploration into what it means to so desperately NEED to live a full life with passion. I could write about this for hours but I’ll leave it for my article otherwise I’ll take over the comment section! The point is it’s an absolutely fascinating and genuinely original book with a lot of depth and profoundness. If you haven’t already, I really hope you get to read it at some point and enjoy it! :)
Still working on Moby Dick. One might ask if I’ve I picked it up since the last Silent Reading Party…
…I will not be taking questions at this time.