Essential for a clever well-read Bostonian: The Big House by George Howe Colt, Cape Cod in years past 😮

I added an Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express) to my July TBR in memory of the amazing Alice. Radio Planet has a great cover. Good to hear the Brattle continues to provide bibliotherapy.

I'm glad that the Brattle could Provide some solace for you today, and an Agatha Christie and some solace. I know what you mean about being in the stacks, I feel calmer just walking in a bookshop.

The Killer Thing! I love that book.

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As soon as Steve held it up I thought “Hey! Michael has that book.” 😀

I like that translation of the Iliad! Which one did you just read? And which is your favorite translation?

I always smile when you show a book that also is in my home library. In this case, it’s the Shakespeare volume with the Rockwell Kent illustrations, which I inherited from my grandmother. Though usually when I want to read a Shakespeare play, I will go after a Signet paperback. The only John Barth novel I attempted to read was _Giles Goat Boy,_ lent to me by a coworker once. I could just not get into it, what with the meta-prefaces and quasi-editorial material at the start, engineered to get _my_ goat.

Well, Steve, you have me beat by a little: two Collected Shakespeares in three weeks? A few days ago, I just picked up another Collected Shakespeare, making two in two months for me, and five of them in total around the house. I think there may be something wrong with me....

I love the Barbara Holloway series by Kate Wilhelm. Definitely need to try her SF!!

Vasari died 450 years ago yesterday.

Wait! What? When and why did she die?!

One of the major criticisms of Barth was that he was too self-referential and self-indulgent. I loved “Chimera” and “The End of the Road.”