Verweile Doch
Last night's long Sunday read was a scattershot affair. Fiction....long live fiction! I've a surfeit of journalism and longed to lose myself in glorious prose.
John Updike's Seek My Face ...due back at the library this week and hence I had to make a stab. I read maybe the first 40 pages and I'm not sure it's his best.
Liam O'Flaherty's Famine: A Novel
Charles Dicken's Bleak House...my favorite novel of his is Great Expectations and I wonder if I shouldn't just re-read that one.
Also picked up some non-fiction - Jay Winik's April 1865: The Month That Saved America . It looks pretty interesting.
Saturday I spent some time with Chesterton's Saint Thomas Aquinas and Richard Drake's A History of Appalachia
Also spent some of Sunday researching the disappearance of my great-grandfather James Smith. Did he die in the 1913 flood or leave and start a family in St. Louis? I would post my speculations, but even I recognize the utter minutiae and self-indulgence that would represent to you small band of readers.
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