What are you currently reading?

[ritter]

For some strange reason, Amazon.es was (and still is) offering this volume of the Complete Works of W.H. Auden (volume III of the complete prose, 600 pages covering the years 1946 to 1955) at a deeply discounted price. I grabbed the opportunity, and have been reading some short essays or reviews (on Cocteau, on Colette, or a very sympathetic and insightful appraisal of Cav & Pag, of all things) and finding them really enjoyable.



The "big" essay included in this tome is The Enchafèd Flood, which deals with romanticism and its relation to the sea. This will have to wait, though, as I am still halfway through Robert Antelme's L'Espèce humaine (see my previous post in this thread), which is harrowing but superbly written.

[Number Six]

The Giants of the Polo Grounds - Noel Hynd

Continuing this one, among other books. The first segment covers the history of major league baseball, not just the Giants. I am up to the mid 1890s, and I have found it entertaining and informative because I know so little about this era. (okay, pretty much nothing)