People are always asking me what I am reading this month, well no one actually asks me that for some reason, I just like to think they do.
But even though my main job is to sell discount books at shop-books.ca I do read many of the books that pass through.
After all I love reading too going from collector to seller was a bit of a process and a story for another time).
So, here in no particular order, are the books I am trying to get through this month:
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
A brilliant, and I don't often use that word, first contact story set in two time frames, medieval Germany and present day USA. I will be doing a short review of this.
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
Miller's travel book about his trip to Greece just before World War 2 broke out, is a gale of words, almost stream of consciousness, storm of a book. Not for all but for lovers of Miller's verbal high volume ejections, it's great.
On Gurdjieff by Garrett Thomson
Not sure I will be able to get to this one before October is out but I will try. Although G.I. Gurdjieff's spiritual philosophy of work on one's habits resonates with me, I somewhat distrust his method of belittlement, if I can call it that. I admit to a cursory knowledge of his methods so I am reading this one to get more familiar and be able to speak more intelligently about it.
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