
Over the weekend, I finished two books for the Wilder seminar — By the Shores of Silver Lake and The Long Winter. I also finished rereading Beloved for a Roundtable course. Today I began The Enigma of Arrival (V.S. Naipaul; 1987) with APS Together and worked on the first section of Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf; 1925) for a new Roundtable course. This evening, before the final meeting of the seminar on the Old Testament with Marilynne Robinson, I set aside the required reading list for a bit and read another hundred pages in The Every (David Eggers; 2021), the follow-up to The Circle (2013), which I reread with the Commonplace Philosophy book club last month. Several participants recommended the sequel, and after a slow opening, I am now engaged (if pretty certain that this can conclude in only one way). I will catch up on this month’s book club selection, You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity (Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul D’Ambro; 2021), tomorrow.
Some excellent reading going on! I am in my second year of being a part of a book club that meets monthly. I am delighted to be a part of it. This group of people and reading and discussing books with them filled a hole in my life I didn’t realize was there. We just read and discussed CUTTING FOR STONE and are now reading DRACULA for April. In February we read and discussed THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. One of the things I love about being a part of this group is that it exposes me to literature I never would have read on my own.
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