As usual, the lists appear. Books of the year etc., etc.
So far, for me it's been (in no particular order):
Jesus's Son
Falconer.
Tim Liardet's latest poems are also there or thereabouts.
G. Dyer's essays, 'Working the Room',
John Gray's Immortalization commission.
Books I plan to read before the hols. are over:
Wildwood,
Cheever's journals
List of books I've recently bought but haven't read:
Miroslav Holub's collected poems,
Pessoa's Book of disquiet
Wolf Solent,
Veronica
Exit ghost,
Rabbit, Run,
Life and Fate
Books on their way (or photocopies):
Bruni's 'Civil Economy'
P. Foot, 'Goodness'
Love's work,
The Lover's discourse (barthes)
John Burnside (his latest novel and poems)
That they may face the rising sun,
a book of Sappho's poems
Books I have but will never have the time to read:
Rebecca West,
The Machiavelli moment,
The Meaning of Icons.
Romanesque art by Schapiro,
The poetics of space
Books started but not finished (too many to list here)
biographies of Celan, Matisse and Hardy
Vertigo by Blom.
The Romantic Economist.
Books on my desk that I periodically dip into:
Gunter Eich's poems, 'Angina days'
Robin Robertson's poems,
Macintyre's Dependent Rational animals
Griffin's 'Well-being',
Beyond the Invisible Hand
Books I've started but will definitely not continue with:
Lorrie Moore's Gate book
James Salter's pretentious crap.
Jon McGregor.
Analysis:
Can't read biographies; don't like economics; the books I'd love to read, have stored away, are on art or history, you've become very judgemental; am drawn to Catholic writers; need a break to read. Need a break to escape from reading!
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interesting list & analysis --- would there be a correlation between liking to read (stored away) art books and becoming judgemental? :-)
ah, Romanesque art by Schapiro - i should get (& read ) that one
& what's with this Romantic Economist?
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f.
hello, f. don't get you! sorry :-)
i do like art books (civilisation is one of my favourites).
schapiro..yep, read one chapter and it is really good. will post some excerpts if i get the time. not sure, maybe there's a para already here, somewhere, on the blog.
romantic economist. bronk. probably an old idea: that economists are too mechanical (or, rather, use mechanical metaphors). Follows on from mirowski and the idea of 'physics-envy'. It's why so many engineers find economics easy and attractive (since the math is easy for them). part of it is, i guess, the notion that we have imperfect knowledge (Frydman). anyway, it would be good for a history of econ thought class. haven't got the time to read it though and so will probably, as with many other books, give up on about page 60.
Anyway, it's a bit like trying to find *some* light in a rather dismal and boring field. Hmm. should have taken history. Er..where's that damned therapist when you need him! :-)
drat! even roxana isn't around to joke around with!
khair...have a good weekend, fff. doing anything interesting?
Take care,
b.
oh, now i get it..duh! :-)
do you like the gunter eich, b?
yes, i do anton. more so the earlier poems (from angina days). er..i say that with trepidation because i know, simply know, you're going to say something terrible! :-0
how are you dear anton?
b.
hi b, no not saying anything terrible, i like his poems too.
same old b. and how are you?
anton, I'm old, and very much the same! ;-)
No, seriously, okay...ish. varies. Strange, when people ask that question the answer has to be: fine. if people said how they really were or felt, it probably wouldn't be very tolerable. Says quite a lot about us, i guess.
Not a very exciting weekend. went out for dinner with some friends and got a film 'the conversation' but haven't had the time to watch it.
Lots of books to read but I don't know where to start and I've got this blasted economics to teach ..always seems to get in the way!
Did you solve your cold problem? what you need is a 'kashmiri kangri'! :-)
take care,
b.
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