So far: Notes from Underground, White Nights, My Brilliant Friend Right now: working on some Wendell Berry. That Distand Land with Jayber Crow next at bat. Side note, this was my first time reading a translation by Magarshack. SO much better than what I've read from Garnett and Pevear/Voloshonsky.

I am maybe 20% into the Manuscript Found in Saragossa. A picaresque through the Spanish countryside to relieve the office-job-in-a-big-city-during-the-summer blues. The King of Elfland's Daughter before that for similar reasons, and next will hopefully be The Tartar Steppe but I cannot find it in ANY bookstore

Will likely change soon but: Keith Mcnally memoir Fagles Iliad (only read Iliad in Korean) Beware of pity Taleb’s antifragile (might give up on this, I’m already kinda bored halfway) Tropic of cancer Private Citizens by Tony T

aenesidemus

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I read the Fagles Iliad and found it solid but on occasion awkward phrasing, read Lattimore for the Odyssey and found it more pleasing, and hear his Iliad is even better. I've been slowly going through the Pope Iliad and find it better than Fagles as well. Nothing wrong with him of course but interesting to see what you think.

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Hi meinkafka. It is winter over here and I have been spending a lot of time at the local library. Just picked up a copy of Franzen's Purity and am going to tear through that. Sorry, 10000 books already waiting on my desk...

A miserable amount of reading about the 19th century Russian intelligentsia. For a thesis, not for fun.

Brentano / Husserl / Nietzsche / Heidegger on the philosophy side, Ricardo / Marx on the economics side, and then I'm already slowly working through Sartor Resartus and Anna Kavan's Ice for fiction. How good is Whitman? I liked O Captain My Captain but never read any more of him.