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Wednesday Reading Meme
Feb. 9th, 2022 05:57 pmRecently Finished:
Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer: a very charming romance that feels relevant despite written over a century ago.
Poems of William Blake by William Blake: contains Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the Book of Thel. His language is very vivid, with pointed social criticism. It saddens me when I read that quite a lot of his manuscripts were burnt away and lost forever by his acquaintance because they found his writing controversial.
Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1890) : a stream of consciousness novella about a literally starving nameless writer. At a point his health worsens so much that he can't hold any water. Is the narrator going mad because of starvation, or vice versa? There are evidences pointing to both. Very intense and emotionally complex study.
The Apothecary in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Thomas K. Ford: Found this book from a list of obscure historical facts. Interesting information, such as fee regulation law for physicians, and makes me be grateful about medical development
Currently Reading:
The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic by Elizabeth Bisland. Elizabeth Bisland was a journalist and writer once travelled around the world in 76 days in 1889. She wrote thoughtfully on many topic, such as travel, art and woman's rights. It's sad though to see how the social norm restricts one's thinking even when one tries to rise above it.
What will I read next:
I have downloaded a number of fiction and non-fiction books from the Gutenberg projects and plan to read them over the course.
Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer: a very charming romance that feels relevant despite written over a century ago.
Poems of William Blake by William Blake: contains Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the Book of Thel. His language is very vivid, with pointed social criticism. It saddens me when I read that quite a lot of his manuscripts were burnt away and lost forever by his acquaintance because they found his writing controversial.
Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1890) : a stream of consciousness novella about a literally starving nameless writer. At a point his health worsens so much that he can't hold any water. Is the narrator going mad because of starvation, or vice versa? There are evidences pointing to both. Very intense and emotionally complex study.
The Apothecary in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Thomas K. Ford: Found this book from a list of obscure historical facts. Interesting information, such as fee regulation law for physicians, and makes me be grateful about medical development
Currently Reading:
The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic by Elizabeth Bisland. Elizabeth Bisland was a journalist and writer once travelled around the world in 76 days in 1889. She wrote thoughtfully on many topic, such as travel, art and woman's rights. It's sad though to see how the social norm restricts one's thinking even when one tries to rise above it.
What will I read next:
I have downloaded a number of fiction and non-fiction books from the Gutenberg projects and plan to read them over the course.
