DELIGHTED to see Sarah Bakewell's Montaigne 'biography' on your pile Sarah. You'll love this. Definitely one of my reading highlights of the year thus far.
Bakewell makes you fall in love with the man so profoundly that you shouldn't be surprised when you rush out and pick up a copy of M's collected essays soon after reading this book (I did and it was the tome-like Everymans Library edition :))
Yesterday I was looking at the work of Lasse Antonsen and there was something that reminded of the book Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett. It's been a long time, since I read that book, this morning I went again to my bookshelf to find the book. .....summer reading
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DELIGHTED to see Sarah Bakewell's Montaigne 'biography' on your pile Sarah. You'll love this. Definitely one of my reading highlights of the year thus far.
Bakewell makes you fall in love with the man so profoundly that you shouldn't be surprised when you rush out and pick up a copy of M's collected essays soon after reading this book (I did and it was the tome-like Everymans Library edition :))
Enjoy!
Rob
Oooh, new David Mitchell book. Let us know if it's good.
Yesterday I was looking at the work of Lasse Antonsen and there was something that reminded of the book Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett. It's been a long time, since I read that book, this morning I went again to my bookshelf to find the book. .....summer reading
My winter reading is a new Lifespan Development Psychology textbook and Jonathon Franzen's Freedom.
Will let you know what they are all like. Halfway through the Andrew O'Hagan - makes me want to write from pov of dog, not always a good thing....
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