Reading Wednesday
Jan. 18th, 2023 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoBeen a while since I did one of these. :V
Just finished: The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins. This one is poetry. I've never encountered this guy's work before, but I found this volume really solid. Honestly, I don't enjoy most poetry that I pick up at random off the library shelf, but I did like this. He has a way with words and images and small moments.
Also just finished: Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Saw this on the 'featured' shelf at the library; decided to finally read it. I didn't read this novel in school, so it's nice to finally understand what all the references to it are on about. I knew there was going to be murder, but I wasn't expecting quite as much; I was a little surprised. As for a read, it's all right, but I think I'd have liked it better as a kid - I loved all those "stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere" kind of stories.
Reading next: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan. I expected this to be a straightforward history book, but now that I take a closer look, it's described as a "political travelogue". A lot of what the local library has on this region seems to be that sort of thing. Apparently this one caused quite a stir at the time it was published. At this point I'm basically scraping through what little the library has that covers Romania and Bulgaria - after that I'll move on to less immediately-available material.
Just finished: The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins. This one is poetry. I've never encountered this guy's work before, but I found this volume really solid. Honestly, I don't enjoy most poetry that I pick up at random off the library shelf, but I did like this. He has a way with words and images and small moments.
Also just finished: Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Saw this on the 'featured' shelf at the library; decided to finally read it. I didn't read this novel in school, so it's nice to finally understand what all the references to it are on about. I knew there was going to be murder, but I wasn't expecting quite as much; I was a little surprised. As for a read, it's all right, but I think I'd have liked it better as a kid - I loved all those "stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere" kind of stories.
Reading next: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan. I expected this to be a straightforward history book, but now that I take a closer look, it's described as a "political travelogue". A lot of what the local library has on this region seems to be that sort of thing. Apparently this one caused quite a stir at the time it was published. At this point I'm basically scraping through what little the library has that covers Romania and Bulgaria - after that I'll move on to less immediately-available material.
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Date: 2023-01-23 02:11 pm (UTC)The level of graphic in Flies was higher than I expected!