I’ve realized with dismay that it’s been several days since I posted anything on my beloved new book blog! How have y’all survived out there, without my insightful musings on various literary works, my exegesis on Henry James or my moving narration of the struggles and triumphs of meeting the TBR or Back to the Classics challenges? (To any who happen by, you do realize I’m joking, right?) Anyway, I’ve been busy with the books shown below.
To translate the visual into the verbal, spring semester started about ten days ago and I’m taking courses! The Tintoretto book is actually a catalog for a major exhibition on that artist opening (“god willin’ and the government don’t shut down”) in March at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.; I’m reading it in conjunction with an incredible course in Renaissance Venetian Art. The novels (Frankenstein; Middlemarch; Great Expectations; Jane Eyre and Dr Jekyll) are required for my course in the 19th century English novel, which I signed up for on a whim and which has turned out to be wonderful! We finished Frankenstein last week (I’m thinking of doing a review) and are well into Jane Eyre; Great Expectations is next. I’d read several of the novels, but all many years ago and quite honestly didn’t really like some of them; it’s amazing, so many years later, to find that I’m having an altogether different reaction to these works. The two remaining books about Renaissance art relate to my desperate attempt to settle on a topic for a major research project (I have some ideas, but have a very long way to go on this!). Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to — how about y’all? Reading anything good these days?
"You Might as Well Read" 