A Three Book Week
I love long holidays. Now my own boss, I gave myself the luxury of a four-day Memorial Day weekend.
The vacation began with a tour of the Louisville Zoo. Hannah and I spent the day there together. Our goal was to visit every animal, fish and other exhibit in the zoo and we did just that. Plus, we rode the train and carousel and hit the playground for good measure.
I also repaired our fountain (three jumping fish motif), stocked the bird feeders and planted myself in the porch swing with some Necco wafers. I ran trails every day, stuck with a rather boring Indianapolis 500 that rewarded me in the end with an exciting final seven or so laps, and knocked out several books, too:
How Proust Can Change Your Life (de Botton)
Artemis Fowl (Eion Colfer)
Temple Stream (Bill Roorbach)
I found de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life well worth my time. His obvious study of Proust's life and work will make my continued investment in completing In Search Of Lost Time more enjoyable and meaningful.
Artemis Fowl started with much promise, but I was ultimately disappointed with the simplicity with which Colfer navigated his conclusion.
Roorbach's Temple Stream, meanwhile, reinforced my belief that there's no better living nature writer alive. Everyone deserves to appreciate life's subtleties so well celebrated in Roorbach's writing. Summers With Juliet still stands as the single best summertime read, bar none.
The vacation began with a tour of the Louisville Zoo. Hannah and I spent the day there together. Our goal was to visit every animal, fish and other exhibit in the zoo and we did just that. Plus, we rode the train and carousel and hit the playground for good measure.
I also repaired our fountain (three jumping fish motif), stocked the bird feeders and planted myself in the porch swing with some Necco wafers. I ran trails every day, stuck with a rather boring Indianapolis 500 that rewarded me in the end with an exciting final seven or so laps, and knocked out several books, too:
I found de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life well worth my time. His obvious study of Proust's life and work will make my continued investment in completing In Search Of Lost Time more enjoyable and meaningful.
Artemis Fowl started with much promise, but I was ultimately disappointed with the simplicity with which Colfer navigated his conclusion.
Roorbach's Temple Stream, meanwhile, reinforced my belief that there's no better living nature writer alive. Everyone deserves to appreciate life's subtleties so well celebrated in Roorbach's writing. Summers With Juliet still stands as the single best summertime read, bar none.
posted by Erik Eckel at 11:03 AM
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