Interesting list. Strange to see someone reading La Divina Commedia. It is indeed a masterpiece, especially Inferno. You know, they make us study it in school here. And when you do as a teenager, you kind of hate it lol. I've been wanting to return to it for ages now, maybe I will soon. :)
A beautiful list Catalina. It sounds like you had a great year of reading.
This year for me is about being more conscious of what I read, and reading deeper into all of it. Maybe not more (or less) but simply more discerning. I'll take away a few from your list too.
I’ve just finished Keegan’s “So Late in the Day”: in it, she makes the simplest, most elegant description of misogyny I’ve ever read. I’ve put “Small Things Like These” on my list!
I like the simplicity and clarity of your year in review and the easence statement from each work that stayed with you. I love your point that to study carefully what one has read and how we are digesting it is to study our very self. I return to Steven Pressfield’s War of Art again and again. It’s not really a story, but it follows the universal theme of human resistence to growth and change, which is a story worth studying daily.
Interesting list. Strange to see someone reading La Divina Commedia. It is indeed a masterpiece, especially Inferno. You know, they make us study it in school here. And when you do as a teenager, you kind of hate it lol. I've been wanting to return to it for ages now, maybe I will soon. :)
A beautiful list Catalina. It sounds like you had a great year of reading.
This year for me is about being more conscious of what I read, and reading deeper into all of it. Maybe not more (or less) but simply more discerning. I'll take away a few from your list too.
Thanks for sharing why these books stood out to you, Cata. Already added a few to my list. Great to see another Keegan fan 🙌🏼
I’ve just finished Keegan’s “So Late in the Day”: in it, she makes the simplest, most elegant description of misogyny I’ve ever read. I’ve put “Small Things Like These” on my list!
I like the simplicity and clarity of your year in review and the easence statement from each work that stayed with you. I love your point that to study carefully what one has read and how we are digesting it is to study our very self. I return to Steven Pressfield’s War of Art again and again. It’s not really a story, but it follows the universal theme of human resistence to growth and change, which is a story worth studying daily.