July 2022

Dang. Only three books read in July. My lowest ever. Granted, add an inter-city move to it, burying you in boxes, as well as an 8-day business trip, and maybe you'll slow down a bit. Also, start and stop a couple books, that probably affects your reading numbers. Right now I'm reading From Here to Eternity (Audible) and an Esperanto book (see below). 

• Proportional Response, by Tim Enright. Written by my neighbor and friend. His first book. Great story but needed some serious editing. I gave him notes. 
• Transcription, by Kate Atkinson. Out-freaking-standing. I'm not sure she can write a bad book, but I aim to find out.
• Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meh. But it was on my 50 Classics list for the Classics Club.

But I did buy some books:

• Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, by Olivia Manning.
• Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally), by John McWhorter. Love the title and the author. His linguistics books are great.
• The River Between, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Need to read more African authors. $2 Kindle deal.
• Transcription, by Kate Atkinson. See above.
• Life with Picasso, by Francoise Gilot. Have always wanted this, the NYRB version, and no-shit it came up in Kindle deals one day for two bucks. Started it and it is great so far.
• Futility: A Novel, by William Gerhardie. Read in some booky blog that Gerhardie was loved by Evelyn Waugh. Had never heard that, but this book was cheap on Kindle so I got it. Will probably start it soon.
• Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons: (Opinions), by Kurt Vonnegut. I can't not buy a Vonnegut book when it's a two dollar Kindle deal.

Language-wise I finished my BLTS with Serbian/Croatian. Have a 6 week break then I'll start it up again, but for only 8 weeks. Then the DLPT. Hoping for a 2/2. We'll see. 

Middle Egyptian going well. I skipped one homework as I had just returned from Florida and didn't have the time to do it, but we did just submit the last homework for the penultimate chapter. Now on to chapter 8. Do I see the end in sight?

And reading Esperanto again. I started La memoraĵoj de Julia Agripina, which is good so far. It's long, so I'll be reading it for quite a while, but it's nice to have on Kindle. It's part of Stafeto's Esperanto series.