In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…and I managed to get some good reading in even with an even more topsy-turvy and unpredictable work schedule than last week.
Permanent reading list:
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne- II.12- An apology for Raymond Sebond.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
I have finished reading:
The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier by E. Franklin Frazier and C. Eric Lincoln- I wasn’t sure if I had read this volume before...then about 25 pages in, I remembered that I last read this when I lived in D.C. in my early 20’s. I had never read a history of the black church prior to that reading; I’ve read a few of those histories snce but it was good to get a refresher on the material...even if I did remember how antagonistic is was to this volume the first time that I read it.
I am reading:
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel Delany: Vol 1 1957-1969- Now I’m into his 1965 trip to Europe. A curious thing...Delany had already published 3 SF novels by this time but he still considered another work of his to be his “serious work”...it wasn’t long before he matured from that POV.
I never had the intuitive grammatical sense many verbal people have. In elementary school I learned grammar thoroughly but as a fascinating science, something to correct writing other than my own. Today, I am fine doctoring other people’s writing, scotch taping dangling modifiers to their antecedents, pasting split infinitives back together, unmixing metaphors and nudging violated parallel structure back into alignment, but my own work still glitters with missing commas, perfectly unrelated tenses follow each other in sequence like lame elephants grasping for tails, and the little Saxon words repeat and repeat through my prose.
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election” Volumes I and II by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III ...Vol. I — Glad I read Vol. II first...this volume is a slog…
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