This postHas it really been four days since I last blogged? Goodness. Some people can blog once a week or once a month, and that’s great for them, but I can’t do that. And these gaps between posts — it’s been a few months now since I slowed down from my almost-daily schedule — are bothering me. Turns out I’m the kind that pretty much has to post every day, or at least try. And so we’re going back to a post a day, starting today.
(Thought: I wonder if the reason I haven’t been blogging as much is that I’ve been writing more on Twitter. Hmm…)
Anyway, I want to blog about books more often (as you may have noticed). Books are a huge lifeblood for me, and the more I write about them, the happier I get. So expect more book posts from now on. :)
And in recent book news, I stopped by Deseret Book at the mall last week when I was waiting for the ShieldZone guy to affix the shield to my iPhone, and I ended up being lured into buying a Mini Gramercy edition of Jane Eyre (my third copy of the book), primarily because (a) it was small and (b) I really, really, really like the word “Gramercy.” (Probably because it’s associated with The Dark Is Rising in my subconscious.) “Gramarye” is a related word I really like.
I’ve also bought the Anthony Esolen translation of Dante’s Inferno and I’m seven or eight cantos in and loving it. Continuing on with the recent-translations-of-classics kick, I bought a boxed set of the Penguin Deluxe Editions of Robert Fagles’ translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Mmm. And just today I passed the bargain corner of the bookstore and picked up Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (which I read a year or so ago and loved) and James O’Donnell’s biography of Augustine.
Have I mentioned that buying books makes me happy? :) I know, I know, material purchases shouldn’t bring me joy. And usually they don’t, but books are different.
Ah, books. :)
