Mags, Maurois

Since my last post, I've read a LOT of magazines. I've read OK, Star, Globe, Hello Canada, Superior Outdoors, The New Yorker, The Economist, Vanity Fair, three issues of Eclectic Reading, and two issues of The New Scientist. That is all I can remember, there could be more.

I have also read the two volumes of Andre Maurois' admirably written memoirs. They were interesting for the vividness of detail, but an picture also emerges of a selfish man who was unwittingly cruel to both his first and second wives.

Heder, Icebergs

Since my last post, I've read an issue of The New Scientist and two issues of Eclectic Reading. I've also read two books on icebergs, one by a princess of Japan called Lullie the Iceberg, and by way of contrast Heder's great work on philology. I also read Monogram, G.B. Stern's memoirs of her life. I'm not reading as much this season given the kayaking and at the moment a houseguest.

Gilbert, Waller

I forgot to mention that I read Gilbert's Eat Pray Love and Waller's Bridges of Madison County. I enjoyed both, and found both easy reads. Waller wrote a fairy tale.

Seymour, Ahmed, Hoffman

Since my last post I've read an issue of The New Yorker, Eclectic Reading and OK Magazine. I've also read Ahmed's Lords of Finance, a study of the banking crisis during before and during the Great Depression. It was very interesting. I also read The Dead Hand, by David Hoffman, which was good although I knew most of it already, it's about the arms race during the Cold War. And I read a book about Icebergs and Glaciers, by Simon Seymour.

Mags, Vico, and Icebergs

Since my last post, I've read an issue of The New Yorker, three issues of Eclectic Reading, an issue of Vegetarian Times, an issue of The New Scientist, an issue of The Economist, two issues of Hello Canada and two issues of OK Magazine. I also read Vico's the First New Science, and to my surprise I agree with all his commentators -- he is very conservative. His emphasis on words put me in mind of the state of philosophy when Nietzsche came along. I also just read Wadham's Ice in the Ocean, as I'm getting ready for my paddle down Iceberg Alley in Newfoundland. I finished Writer's Chapbook.