For now, the new books have been shelved.
In advance of seeing Shattered Globe Theater’s production of A Tale of Two Cities, I began rereading Charles Dicken’s most famous novel, but I needed to set it aside to complete assignments for two courses I’m taking. For those, I’ve been (re)reading the Iliad and several academic articles concerning Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian. Next month, a friend and I will embark on a study of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, so I’ve been reading some introductory material. (That same friend and I recently read and discussed Charlotte Wood’s beautiful novel, Stone Yard Devotional (2024). Highly recommended.) With the SciFri Book Club, I read John Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (2025). In between projects and assignments, I’m making my way through Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Sarah Wynn-Williams; 2025).
Nerdishly 
Some years ago I read A TALE OF TWO CITIES out of curiosity, mainly–and perhaps a bit of spite, since a teacher I didn’t care for in high school was open about her dislike of it. I was frankly amazed by it…to this day, the scene in the early chapter when the peasants come running to lap up the wine from the cracks in the cobbles when a cask falls off a wagon haunts me.
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That same scene struck me this time!
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