Not many books this month – huge work project and Bleak House is super-long!
- Ulysses – James Joyce, 1922 . Re-read, with Amherst Book Club; quotes TBD.
- The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro, 1995. Second Monday; quotes TBD.
- Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World – Brandon Keim, 2024. Nature & Environment; quotes TBD.
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens, 1853. Great Books selection, re-read, and also satisfying the Massachusetts Center for the Book January challenge, “a book about or set in winter.” I wrote: “Snowstorm Fern was the perfect time to finish this classic, which climaxes in a carriage-ride through snowy London. It takes a while to build momentum but it’s worth the investment of time to meet memorable characters and one of the first detectives in fiction.” Quotes TBD.
- Moominsummer Madness – Tove Jansson, 1954. For the ABC spin-off childrens’ book group; quotes TBD.
Short stories
- “The Dead” – James Joyce, 1914. We read this after Ulysses; probably my 5th or 6th time. A masterpiece! Then we watched the 1987 John Huston movie, which was a disappointment.