Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
So here's a little taste of the marvellous #ShortStories from Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz for #Spring 2024.
Ok so I'm #reading#Hothouse by #BrianWAldiss now, and this is such a strange and mysterious setting I guess I'll keep going with it, just wow.
Only two chapters so far. Earth, 2 million years into the future. The planet no longer spins, and vegetal life has evolved to the top of the food chain.
I thought
Thought
Had hope
Only briefly
But still so beautiful
Short the love
Short the longing
Long but then the pain
Drilling
Painful then the questions
All fallible
All gray in me
All gone now
Heavy the heart
Burdened now
With pain that never fades
Mistakes now
The questions now
Thinking so frantically
To help
Find help
But where only
Everything now wrong again
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I have finished reading Chapterhouse Dune. My fools errand is finished. It’s not good, and of course ends with loose ends.
I think my personal recommendation is reading the first two books. Although just one or even zero are solid choices. Three is alright, except it’s a trap if it makes you curious and want to read more.
I’m tempted to revisit Heinlein who I haven’t read in at least twenty years, but I’m also afraid he’ll be disappointing.
"The pile beside my bed never shrinks; at the bottom of the stack are books I've been planning to crack open for months. My shelves remain full of lingering aspirations," writes the Walrus's Michelle Cyca. She looks at the problem of unread books, and the difficulty in offloading our libraries. What do you do with your unwanted books?
No Sun and quite cold: the weather decided I should be in an armchair with a blanket, reading. The book is "Poirot: the greatest detective in the world" by Mark Aldridge (check my previous post if you want to see the cover). Two chapters to finishing it.
The #book is protected by a crochet cover I made myself. Wasn't sure, but it works really well. It was quite simple: 21 granny squares sewed together ☺️