29 May , 2007 - Recently finished Gene Wolfe's The Knight. I wish Andy had bought the rest of the Wizard Knight series.
7 April, 2007 - Just started a "stand-alone" fantasy book by Charles de Lint , Widdershins. Not totaly enamored of it & not sure I'll finish it. 29.May.2007 - wellI did finish it: not my favorite book.
December 22, 2006 - About halfway through a biography of Mixail Kuzmin (written by John Malmstad), a Russian poet I've been interested in for awhile. It's sort of got me thinking of doing a research project by him.
I'm now (June 16,2006) to the second book of the third trilogy of the Farseer series by Robin Hobbs. Wondering what to take with me to Europe in July.
Have begun to read a biobraphy of Pushkin, Russia's most famous & beloved poet. I got almost to the end of that book and began the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobbs - I'm just beginning the first book of that (Feb. 13, 2006) so it's time I posted it to this page. Quite a page turner.
I'm now reading Can You Forgive Her by Trollope (the title link is to an etext version that you can get for free). Next up, the most recent Harry Potter book (if you don't want all the fancy schmancy FLASH stuff, use this link.).
I'm now reading The Inner Game of Music, having recently finished The New H.N.I.C by Todd Boyd, who posits that hip-hop has replaced civil rights as the lingua franca of Black Power.
January 2005: I've recently begun Gene Wolf's Shadow & Claw.
June 19, 2004: I've recently begun reading the final (10th!) volume of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. I've also James Merrill's Collected poems, Boulez' Orientations (English translation), James McCourt's Mawrdew Czgowchwz, and Genet's Notre dame des fleurs (en français) by the bedside.
I've recently begun reading Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World, the first in his The Wheel of Time series. I've also James Merrill's Collected poems, Boulez' Orientations (English translation), James McCourt's Mawrdew Czgowchwz, and Genet's Notre dame des fleurs (en français) by the bedside.
I've begun the fifth Harry Potter book, and am enjoying it. I recently finished As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann and, while finding it a bit disturbing, enjoyed it.
I'm now finishing up M by Peter Robb; it's a biography of painter Caravaggio and very interesting.
I'm still working my way through the Dorothy Dunnett series House of Nicolò. Almost finished with the fourth book which has taken place mostly in Africa - an amazing amount of research has gone into this series - giving a good insight into what was going on in many parts of the world at that time from Europe to the Middle East and Africa. Don't know if she meant to but she's pointed out that the Muslims have been carrying on these horrendous massacres against their fors for centuries.
I'm now working my way through second book of the Dorothy Dunnett series The Lyman Chronicles. Not as likeable a character as her Nicolo series - confusing history at times, too. But then I guess it was. I'm also reading Umberto Eco's Baudolino. Interesting how he uses story telling very conciously, whereas Dunnett never breaks through the fourth wall.
I'm now working my way through the Gormenghast Novels by Peake.
I've finished Ice Hunter by Joseph Heywood. It's set in the U.P of Michigan, where I grew up, and I'm going to give it to my Dad for his birthday in January, so I thought I'd read it first so we could have something to talk about - it's a bit butch and Republican for my taste, but a pretty good murder mystery & makes me realize how little I know of small UP towns.
I've taken a break from Colette and have been reading books recently about Paris. I recently read Paris in the 50's by Stanley Karnow and am now working my way through Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik. I find I liked the book about the 50's much better - deeper than Gopnik's book - and am beginning to think it was Paris - and perhaps the world? - was a much more interesting place then than during the last five years of the 20th century.
I'm back to reading Colette - La vagabonde. Next on the roster is The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. I've also been considering getting back to my Russian - I've a lot of Russian language books upstairs - Chekov, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground. That will be really slow going!
Homecoming III
Saturday, July 20, 2002
2:30 p.m.
University of Wisconsin
- Marinette Campus
750 W. Bay Shore Street
Marinette, WI
617 482 7494
Admission is free
Please join me for the third Homecoming concert in celebration of my parents' 51st wedding anniversary.
The program will include:
Techno Yaman for flute and drum machine (2001) by Robert Dick;
Sonata in a for solo flute by C.P.E. Bach;
Suite for solo flute by Jean Françaix;
XXV Opera Snatches for solo flute by William Schuman
