What are you currently reading?

[SimonNZ]

Started:

[Henk]

Book just arrived, earlier than expected. Happy to read a tough philosophical book again. Was feeling lazy.



Btw this one arrived too:

It's open-access: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552554/the-ecology-politic/

[Brian]

I've been looking forward to reading this since 1973 and have thought of it off and on since then.  Spotted this copy (revised ed.) in a thrift shoppe the other morning and thought, "Hey, it's now or never!"  I could say it's worth the wait but more to the point: it's good and interesting enough to have been further up on my reading list.  There is a third, more recent edition.

Interesting, thank you. This sounds somewhat like Akenfield, an oral history of life in a remote English village in the midcentury.

[Mister Sharpe]

Interesting, thank you. This sounds somewhat like Akenfield, an oral history of life in a remote English village in the midcentury.

Yes, good comparison! Even if the Wylie book is a shade more academic than Blythe's.  Even so, it's a rippingly good read. And like Akenfield, it's surprising how personal things can get in Rousillon (masquerading as Peyrane in the book).  Can't help but recall Peter Mayle's works, too, more whimsical though they be.  I'm a quarter of the way through and it's got me wondering just what was done to update things in the 3rd ed. It'd make a good class topic to compare Akenfield with Rousillon, it's the same time period.  Speaking of Blythe, did you ever see Brian May's (yup, Queen's guitarist) A Village Lost and Found?  It's motivated by much the same love of town and country that compelled Blythe, along with the kind of puzzlers that many people delight in via British murder mysteries (where the locales are seemingly as significant as Who Done It).   

[Brian]

Yes, good comparison! Even if the Wylie book is a shade more academic than Blythe's.  Even so, it's a rippingly good read. And like Akenfield, it's surprising how personal things can get in Rousillon (masquerading as Peyrane in the book).  Can't help but recall Peter Mayle's works, too, more whimsical though they be.  I'm a quarter of the way through and it's got me wondering just what was done to update things in the 3rd ed. It'd make a good class topic to compare Akenfield with Rousillon, it's the same time period.  Speaking of Blythe, did you ever see Brian May's (yup, Queen's guitarist) A Village Lost and Found?  It's motivated by much the same love of town and country that compelled Blythe, along with the kind of puzzlers that many people delight in via British murder mysteries (where the locales are seemingly as significant as Who Done It).   

Thank you for the recommendation! I'll look for that book.

[Mister Sharpe]

Thank you for the recommendation! I'll look for that book.

I cherish my copy, more on same here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Village_Lost_and_Found