A life of books . . .
This has been on my Kindle since February 2013 and really it should’ve stayed there. UGH.
I distinctly remember purchasing it because it was about books and specifically takes place in Hay-on-Wye (Wikipedia link), the book lovers Mecca on the boarder of Wales and England where one of the largest book festivals in the world takes place and there are over two dozen bookshops for the fewer than 2,000 full time residents. How could you go wrong, right?
What an unexciting month . . . a lot of it probably has to do with a full year of doing the same thing over and over, but it was also just a nice boring predictable month without any surprises.
I mean it’s very telling that the most exciting picture I could find for the month was some delicious taco soup! So, I will take it.
It has been soooo cold and wet and rainy in New England the past few weeks. That’s nothing out of the ordinary and doesn’t really affect me much since I’m not leaving the house, but when you can feel the cold through the windows you know it’s cold-cold!
Work has started to pick up for the spring like it usually does, so my reading will be slumping for a bit even though this list looks like a lot, it’s back to MM Romance novels because they’re quick and entertaining. Hopefully, I’ll switch them out so it’s not all MM Romance all the time, but who knows!?
I forgot how beautiful this novel is. That’s not surprising considering it’s been over a decade since I read it and I’m honestly not sure if this is my original copy or if I picked up a new one in the past few years. [Can now confirm this is my original – I brought it to Boston in December 2012.]
I remember when I first read this. I had spent a semester studying the history of sexuality in America and we read many passages from Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality and I was obsessed. Between it and the other readings we read that term, a whole new world around sexuality, gender identity, and philosophy had opened up to me. So, more than likely I typed Foucault into Amazon and this came up and I purchased it.
Continue reading “Book 792: Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker”
I somehow ended up without a photo for January 2021! I guess I could’ve taken one of the snow from yesterday (Feb 1) as I write this, but that’s not really January. So instead you get this hilarious comic I downloaded from reddit when I read Winegard’s The Mosquito, but forgot to use it in my response to the book!
And if I’m being completely honest, I’m surprised it took 10 months for me to NOT have an actual picture to use during this pandemic, and to be fair I have two further on with knitting but they work better together. 2020 was such a mess and then 2021 started off even messier so who knows where we’re going at this point in the US.