Tag: reading

Reading progress… update #6

Fiction:

  • Dexter, Colin: The Dead of Jericho
  • Dexter, Colin: The Riddle of the Third Mile
  • Dexter, Colin: The Secret of Annexe 3
  • Dexter, Colin: The Wench is Dead
  • Dexter, Colin: The Jewel That Was Ours
  • Kureishi, Hanif: The Buddha of Suburbia (r)1
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (r)2
  • Rowling, J. k.: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (r)
  • Rowling, J. k.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (r)
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (r)
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (r)
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (r)
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (r)
  • White, T. H.: The Sword in the Stone

Non-fiction:

  • Glei, Jocelyn K.: Unsubscribe
  • King, Stephen: On Writing
  • Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One’s Own

Morning reading:

  • Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations
    • Books 1-5
  • The Bible:
    • Romans
    • 1 Corinthians
    • 2 Corinthians
    • Galatians
    • Ephesians
    • Philippians
    • Colossians
  • Russell, Bertrand: History of Western Philosophy
    • Preface and Introduction
    • Book One: Ancient Philosophy
      • The Rise of Greek Civilisation
      • The Milesian School
  • Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
    • Introduction and Note on the Text
  1. ‘r’ indicates re-reading.[↩]
  2. Went for a bit of a ‘comfort-reading’ binge over the Easter break.[↩]

Reading progress… update #5

Fiction:

  • Dexter, Colin: The Dead of Jericho
  • Dexter, Colin: The Riddle of the Third Mile
  • Dexter, Colin: The Secret of Annexe 3
  • Dexter, Colin: The Wench is Dead
  • White, T. H.: The Sword in the Stone

Non-fiction:

  • Glei, Jocelyn K.: Unsubscribe
  • King, Stephen: On Writing
  • Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One’s Own

Morning reading:

  • Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations
    • Books 1-5
  • The Bible:
    • Romans
    • 1 Corinthians
    • 2 Corinthians
    • Galatians
    • Ephesians
    • Philippians
    • Colossians
  • Russell, Bertrand: History of Western Philosophy
    • Preface and Introduction
    • Book One: Ancient Philosophy
      • The Rise of Greek Civilisation
      • The Milesian School
  • Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
    • Introduction and Note on the Text

Reading progress… update #41

Fiction:

  • Dexter, Colin: The Dead of Jericho
  • Dexter, Colin: The Riddle of the Third Mile
  • Dexter, Colin: The Secret of Annexe 3
  • Dexter, Colin: The Wench is Dead

Non-fiction:

  • Glei, Jocelyn K.: Unsubscribe
  • King, Stephen: On Writing

Morning reading:2

  • Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations – Books 1-4
  • The Bible:
    • Romans
    • 1 Corinthians
    • 2 Corinthians
    • Galatians
    • Ephesians – Chapters 1-2
  • Russell, Bertrand: History of Western Philosophy
    • Preface and Introduction
    • Book One: Ancient Philosophy
      • The Rise of Greek Civilisation
      • The Milesian School
  • Seneca: Dialogues and Essays – Introduction and Note on the Text
  1. I started reading the first book from The Once and Future King by T. H. White in the middle of February but life and work have stepped in and slowed my reading progress.[↩]
  2. Conversely, my morning reading continues apace. After finishing ‘On Writing’ and ‘Unsubscribe’, I have added ‘A Room of One’s Own‘ by Virginia Wolf.[↩]

Reading progress… update #3

Fiction:

  • Dexter, Colin: The Dead of Jericho
  • Dexter, Colin: The Riddle of the Third Mile
  • Dexter, Colin: The Secret of Annexe 3
  • Dexter, Colin: The Wench is Dead

Non-fiction:

  • Glei, Jocelyn K.: Unsubscribe
  • King, Stephen: On Writing

Morning reading:

  • Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations – Books 1-3
  • The Bible:
    • Romans
    • 1 Corinthians – Chapters 1-13
  • Russell, Bertrand: History of Western Philosophy – Preface and Introduction
  • Seneca: Dialogues and Essays – Introduction and Note on the Text

Time Travel

“The precipitous time travel of literature never ceases to make my head spin. To discover these things all out of order and yet find them in conversation with each other — so close they could be touching. A thought moving at the speed of light, yet also crawling forward with impossible slowness.”

~ Bellwood, Lucy, Make Haste Slowly, 2021

I, too, marvel at those serendipitous moments when ideas appear to echo across time and place; connected as if they are “in conversation with each other”. It is one of the true joys of reading widely and regularly.