Reading Wednesday
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yuuagoCurrently Reading:
Shaping the World: Sculpture From Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford. I thought this would be a standard in-depth art history book. It's actually written as a conversation, and is more or less the authors meditating on various sculpture-related things and wandering from one topic to the other in a very informal way. Lots of beautiful photographs, though.
Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry that Changed Acting Forever by Peter Rader. Not very far into it yet, but so far it's interesting. These two had very different acting styles, apparently. Bernhardt in particular sounds like a very larger-than-life figure.
The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1990 by Romauld Misiunas and Rein Taagepera. It's what it says on the tin. I've been finding it more engaging than I expected, but my brain has been scrambled eggs lately so I'm going to have to put it down for a while.
A Thistle in His Mouth by Peter Huchel. Translated by Henry Beissel. This one is poetry. And oh, it's good! I picked this volume up on a whim when I was in Ottawa a couple of years ago. Didn't get around to it until now, which is really too bad, because it's exactly the sort of poetry that I like. Sparse but still vivid, lots of nature-focus, reminds me a bit of Hauge. Obviously these works would be better in the original, but since I don't read German, here we are. I haven't finished this one yet, but I'm taking it slowly, because I don't want to be done with it.
Reading Next
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. !!!! I'm really looking forward to getting around to this! Though I want to finish at least one of the others first.
Shaping the World: Sculpture From Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford. I thought this would be a standard in-depth art history book. It's actually written as a conversation, and is more or less the authors meditating on various sculpture-related things and wandering from one topic to the other in a very informal way. Lots of beautiful photographs, though.
Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry that Changed Acting Forever by Peter Rader. Not very far into it yet, but so far it's interesting. These two had very different acting styles, apparently. Bernhardt in particular sounds like a very larger-than-life figure.
The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1990 by Romauld Misiunas and Rein Taagepera. It's what it says on the tin. I've been finding it more engaging than I expected, but my brain has been scrambled eggs lately so I'm going to have to put it down for a while.
A Thistle in His Mouth by Peter Huchel. Translated by Henry Beissel. This one is poetry. And oh, it's good! I picked this volume up on a whim when I was in Ottawa a couple of years ago. Didn't get around to it until now, which is really too bad, because it's exactly the sort of poetry that I like. Sparse but still vivid, lots of nature-focus, reminds me a bit of Hauge. Obviously these works would be better in the original, but since I don't read German, here we are. I haven't finished this one yet, but I'm taking it slowly, because I don't want to be done with it.
Reading Next
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. !!!! I'm really looking forward to getting around to this! Though I want to finish at least one of the others first.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.