Currently Reading:
Browse: The World in Bookshops by Henry HitchingsDate Started: April 13
Goodreads Summary:
Edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, passionate, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential, but endangered, institutions: the bookshop. From Denmark to Egypt, from the USA to China, Browse brings together some of the world's leading authors to investigate bookshops both in general and in particular - the myriad pleasures, puzzles and possibilities they disclose.
The fifteen essays reflect their authors' own inimitable style - romantic, elegant, bold, argumentative, poetic or whimsical - as they ask probing questions about the significance, the cultural and social (even political) function as well as the physical qualities of the institution, and examine our very personal relationship to it.
Little Thoughts: I'm really enjoying these short glimpse into book stores around the world and through time. I like that most of these are hole in the wall stores, places where unique people work and/or browse the shelves and that hold special materials.
Currently Listening:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Date Started: March 24
Goodreads Summary:
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
Currently Listening:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenDate Started: March 24
Goodreads Summary:
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
Little Thoughts: Listening through Pheobe Reads a Mystery. This is my least favorite Austen novel, but I keep trying to find something enjoyable in the story.
Check out my Goodreads 2021 Challenge to see what I've read this year.
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