tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post915651431175363643..comments2024-02-29T02:37:34.896-06:00Comments on Ivebeenreadinglately: Tagged!Levi Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-87250803814644754072008-04-26T02:07:00.000-05:002008-04-26T02:07:00.000-05:00While it's true that there are some interesting wo...While it's true that there are some interesting work-related books on my librarian desk at the office, I keep my home bedroom desk somewhat neater, being a minimalist at heart. The nearest books from here are in my living room on my To Read pile, which is on the end table beside my rocking chair in front of my book shelves. 3 of the 8 books on my pile are Christmas gifts you've given me: the first volume of <I>A Dance to the Music of Time</I> (I've conquered the first 2 novels therein, but finding it more often maddening than pleasurable, I've set it down for now), a big (HUGE!) book of hardboiled detective fiction from the <I>Black Mask</I> era (which I dip into now and then), and, physically closest to me, <I>The Aeneid</I> of Virgil, in translation by Robert Fagles. It's really been at the top of my pleasure reading list for quite some time - ever since I finished volume I of <I>Popeye</I> and volume VIII of <I>The Complete Peanuts</I> - but you know I'm a much slower reader than you, and I so often spend my reading time <A HREF="http://www.chipublib.org/eventsprog/programs/oboc/chandler/introduction.php" REL="nofollow">reading for work</A>, or playing video games, or reading for book club. As you know, I'll be reading <I>Anna Karenina</I> for the foreseeable future, when I'm not reading [the next selection for One Book, One Chicago, the title of which will be announced by the mayor in October 2008), but just for tonight, I will read <A HREF="http://www.mightybob.com/?p=106" REL="nofollow">a portion of pg. 123 of <I>The Aenid</I></A>.thatbobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291562814318924458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-16804830680947506032008-04-24T12:40:00.000-05:002008-04-24T12:40:00.000-05:00Okay, I'll play your little game, Stahl.<A HREF="http://www.ellwanger.tv/blog/2008/04/ive-been-uh-reading-lately.html" REL="nofollow">Okay, I'll play your little game, Stahl.</A>Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17517190353763315342noreply@blogger.com