It feels like summer out these days! Except the bees are out in full force. 'Tis that time of year. I can't berate them since I love honey, but I do wish they would not feel drawn to my lunch every afternoon. I complain about the heat, but what am I going to do when I can't sit outside for lunch anymore?
Sorry, just a little aside there.
This bequest has been a topic of conversation at my work for the last day or so. I guess when you don't earmark money for particular projects or wishes an institution can use it for whatever purpose they see fit. Now I personally would have liked to see more money go towards the library or directly to students, but well . . .
Did you know it is National Translation Month? I didn't, and here we are halfway through September already. I'm doing my best to read broadly and works translated from other languages. At the moment I have books translated from Japanese, Spanish and German on the go. I just finished one originally written in Russian and will be adding a 'catch-up' NYRB book so perhaps another German translation? Not too bad a showing, I think. I wouldn't mind picking up a book translated from a language I have never 'read' before. Maybe some language from a country in Africa? Ukrainian or Tajik or something? Hmm.
Have a drool over these photos (and article) on Paris's Shakespeare & Co. I know I did.
Ah, yes, the age old question of just what we mean by 'women's fiction'.
Back at the beginning of the year I said I want to reread a favorite book. Well, I think it might be a Clare Chambers novel after all. Or maybe Eva Rice. And I think I will start reading it tonight. I am in need of a 'comfort read'. It's only Wednesday (no, hey, it's already Wednesday!), and it has been one of THOSE sorts of weeks. I need something familiar and happy and escapist, but well written, too. And I know I can depend on both Clare and Eva!
But on the upside of life I have a (albeit small) Amazon gift card to spend. What should I buy? (What a loaded question!).
A new season of Poldark is set to begin here on PBS. Serious eye candy in more ways than one, don't you agree? I told myself I was going to read the books before watching the TV adaptation, but as I have only read the first book and the first season covers the first two books and here we are moving right along . . . Maybe that won't happen and I will just throw all caution to the wind and watch the show. In an alternate universe someone who looks just like Aidan Turner (with matching accent) would be my significant other (or at least close friend). But in this universe I will content myself by watching him as Poldark.
Dang. Now I want to go pick up the second Poldark book.
I personally have a thing for stories about doppelgängers, so I was interested in this article. A few books I have read are mentioned and a few more I have not, so now it is time to explore (maybe I should order one of those books I have not yet read with my gift card . . .). And I have mentioned having and wanting to read one of Daphne du Maurier's novels this RIP season, so maybe it will be The Scapegoat after all.
Did your city make the top ten best cities for books list? Omaha didn't. Sad to say, no surprise to me there . . .