Recent Readings
Light summer reading includes:
- The Children of Húrin. If Greek, a chorus would sing the Hero’s doom. Doom, doom, doom. Doom. Spare, epic writing, enjoyable.
- King Lear (old Crowell critical library edition from a random University district used book store). Annotations variously useful, useless, or missing to spice things up. 乱 [Ran] still excellent, having read King Lear only after watching the movie.
And on slightly less depressing notes, more excellent works by Le Guin:
And I now possess a new stack of “you really have to read this!” books from coworkers and friends…