What are you reading?
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Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, Ed.
Take it from me; Franklin's late 20th century editions are archaic in comparison; and don't forget her original manuscripts are now readily available to the general public.
The Art of War, Sun Tzu (I'm looking for a good translation, slow going)
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell
(I'm reading this again because a want to find a single poem; I might put it in a frame and hang it on my wall when I find it.)
I'm looking for a history of the Habsburg dynasty. I want something written by an English person. I'll take a look at what's available from their universities.
I want to read a history of the Byzantine empire. I'll take the same approach.
I'm reading the two poetry books now.
I plan to get prescription glasses soon.
I still want to read books and think I should read the first ones on my list before my eyesight becomes worse.
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Andy, You're a bibliophile. Clearly.
I'll share pictures of my office/ study/ library with you and everyone when I have the furniture in place.
This is the area I'm looking forward to decorating most.
It's going to have a desk, a desktop computer, a desk chair, cabinets, a low to the ground table with two matching seats, and a tall bookshelf.
The kitchen is going to have a farmhouse table.
The kitchen, dining room, and the room I described might be a single room.
Thanks for nice pictures!
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Ten bookcases in our house 🤪
Today took 50 old DVDs to charity shops and came back with five books. A rare local history book (that costs over £60) for £3 still in its wrapper; and in the Salvation Army a poetry and a paintings book, and two novels for MrsA, all 50p each. So £5.00.
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Definitely lives up to the hype. I’ll rank it up there with The Food Lab and Cookwise.
@Steve-Miller I love Samin Nosrat. I gave kiddo2 Salt Fat Acid Heat for Christmas, and I received her Good Things from Mr. AM.
Have you listened to her podcast, Home Cooking, with Hrishikesh Hirway? It started at the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s funny and enlightening.
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@Steve-Miller I love Samin Nosrat. I gave kiddo2 Salt Fat Acid Heat for Christmas, and I received her Good Things from Mr. AM.
Have you listened to her podcast, Home Cooking, with Hrishikesh Hirway? It started at the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s funny and enlightening.
@AdagioM said in What are you reading?:
@Steve-Miller I love Samin Nosrat. I gave kiddo2 Salt Fat Acid Heat for Christmas, and I received her Good Things from Mr. AM.
Have you listened to her podcast, Home Cooking, with Hrishikesh Hirway? It started at the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s funny and enlightening.
+1 to all of this!!
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Published 1898, not sure how much help it's going to be, though the chapter on memorising is of interest.
@AndyD Your picture of The Pianist’s Mentor reminded me that there are a number of books on pianism by famous teachers (Neuhaus, Whiteside et al.) and I haven’t read any of them. The ones I’ve glanced at seem kind of dry, and it must be hard to describe fine muscle movements in lively prose. One study, The Great Pianists and Their Technique, does have comments by pupils of Liszt, Chopin and others which are interesting.
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Andy, You're a bibliophile. Clearly.
I'll share pictures of my office/ study/ library with you and everyone when I have the furniture in place.
This is the area I'm looking forward to decorating most.
It's going to have a desk, a desktop computer, a desk chair, cabinets, a low to the ground table with two matching seats, and a tall bookshelf.
The kitchen is going to have a farmhouse table.
The kitchen, dining room, and the room I described might be a single room.
Thanks for nice pictures!
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I just started reading this book that I bought while we were in Japan last summer: Yakuza Sometimes Piano
It’s about a writer whose main reporting area is yakuza (i.e., he primarily writes about the yakuza underworld), and he (the writer, a man in his 50s) starts learning piano.
I literally bought it because the cover caught my eye.
It would probably be more interesting if the person learning the piano were actually a yakuza, instead of someone who writes about yakuza... 
But it’s interesting enough so far. I’m not very far along, so we’ll see.
