Karen Carlson
@sloopie72
And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else. - Walt Whitman I read a lot. Then I blog about it so I don't forget.
Sorry to be late - first day in a while I haven't been melting into a puddle on the floor. Just beginning Pushcart 2026 L - the 50th year! And maybe it'll help me finally remember which Roman numeral L is!
Senaa Ahmad, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. Story collection, she describes it as "Alternate histories with a bit of horror, humor, anger, and absurdity." Loved "Let's Play Dead" from last year's Pushcart. Canadian author, which is always nice to see.
Plato's Alcibiades dialogs - I'm obsessed w/Alcibiades! But this is the last of ancient Greece for this year. I have a couple more things I want to read, but they'll have to wait. Next week I'll be doing novels, transitioning to Pushcart in July.
Tell me how it goes! I'm already considering buying a version turned into a children's picture book, just to find out how they made Ahab 'weird-but-lovable'
I decided not to sign up, but just read the book on my own (see paragraph below from post). It looks like they added several sections, probably due to high demand. Did you apply?
Yes! - he bounced around, Sparta to Persia, then was recalled by the Athenians on Samians. The Athenians wanted to battle... someone, I don't remember who, but he stopped them. Thucydides has a back-handed compliment:
I hear ya... and this doesn't include my abandoned Amazon wishlist, or my physical TBR shelf and table (because the shelf was collapsing)...
Not as old – bought in the 80s for a bargain $25 Use rarely these days (still have the magnifying glass though), used a lot in college (English major, linguistics concentration)
Looks pretty old to me… 1934. Use as my first-line print dictionary (for checking word history, etc.)
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join’d to make thee great.
I just started book 6 of Thucydides - progress! And I also started a new transit book - When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from the original Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. Sort of a fictionalization of the Great Equations book, very interesting!
Oh - I can't find it, but the thing where you're touching the shadow of your phone to the shadow of the tree - said Michelangelo to me!
But I'm also reading David Rubin's 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 as a transit book: fascinating little stories of strange things.
Oh, the Landmarks are wonderful! Maps every 3 or 4 pages, specific to the text. Footnotes pointing to the best maps for the text. Huge appendices. So helpful for first-time readers like me.
I'm amazed and delighted that German has a word for 'crocheted vegetables'.
you could say that - though I'm not sure how 'wild' the TBR table in my living room would be considered. ;)
You mean this one? (Tell your harried marketing department I'll let them know, but it's going to take a while)
I follow a lot of art/lit bots - Vah Gogh, the guggenheim, Emily Dickinson Museum, Walt Whitman, Moby Dick at Sea, etc, to balance things out. and sometimes even Munch surprises me.
So in the meantime I can do some recreational reading (aka transit reading, but in winter, transit time is cut short in honor of snowy sidewalks). Right now, Color Scheme by Edith Young, a quirky book about art, heard about from @ezbrooks.bsky.social .