Vrij

Jippie, bijna 2,5 week vrij. Dat betekent: lekker rondlummelen en vooral: veel lezen!

Van de week al het boek Howard's End is on the Landing (A Year of reading from home) van Susan Hill gedownload van Amazon:

"One day British novelist Susan Hill went to the bookshelves in her home looking for a copy of Howards End. She didn’t find it (at least not at first), but she did come upon several other books she had never read. That started her thinking: Why not devote a year’s reading time just to the books on her own shelves? The project launched, she began a systematic browse through all the books in her house (it’s an old house with lots of floors and shelves on every floor, not to mention the landings between floors). This delightful bibliophile’s memoir records her experience, both the browsing and the reading. Along the way, she developed a kind of second project: If she could only keep 40 books, which ones would they be? The list of 40 appears at the end, and it’s a charmingly eccentric batch of books, but the real fascination in reading Hill’s ruminations isn’t about the list but, rather, about how she reads and how living with books enriches her life. Those who collect books in any fashion will be lost in their own memories as Hill muses on “things that fall out of books,” or defends writing in books, or, best of all, argues against overorganizing the books on her shelves (no more wonderful surprises). Just try to read this book without nosing around your own shelves."

En vanavond, terwijl ik een beetje door Broese in Utrecht liep te slenteren, viel mijn oog op een nieuw boek van Alberto Manguel: De kunst van het lezen (A Reader on reading). Vers van de pers, maar raar dat ik er niets over gelezen had, want als liefhebber van boeken over boeken ben ik daar doorgaans toch wel erg op gespitst. Het was daardoor wel een extra aangename verrassing!

Nu nog een beetje mooi weer erbij, dan ben ik helemaal tevreden (maar met slecht weer hoef ik me ook niet te vervelen).