{Wrap up} Books I read in April, including L’Origine by Milgrom, and Hello World by Fry

April has been a quiet month for reading: in total I’ve read only seven books!

It’s also been the hardest month of unemployment since COVID/ lockdown 1.0 began, and I am barely limping on. I miss London, and my family there so much that I wake up having dreamt of wandering around there with them. Hopefully the worst of the homesickness and missing folks has passed (foolish optimism, sustain me!) and I will be back to reading lots, getting back to work, and seeing loved ones soon.

Hilariously I rediscovered the Classics Club (with 3 months to go until my original time slot expired) this month. Instead of trying and probably failing to cram in 50 classics in 3 months, I sent a message politely asking them whether they could update my challenge time-frame so that I could officially restart from 0.

Now on to this month’s reading wrap up!

 

{Read-a-thon} Bout of Books, Day Four

I had been planning on reading yesterday evening, but instead spent until 4am glued to live newsfeeds watching in horror as chaos unfolded in the Capitol (and listened to some very rousing speeches by various US politicians when a semblance of order was re-established).

Today I’ve not read much either as I’ve been too sleepy to really focus on anything. That said, I have managed the first 3 chapters of Monty Don’s Road to Le Tholonet. He’s a fascinating man, and reading about his time in France was incredibly calming. He lived in Aix-en-Provence for a while, and writes about his time there with real warmth. As I started this blog whilst living in Aix, it feels rather comforting to be mentioning the city in this post.

Apart from that, my brain has been sleepily flitting from one thing to another. I have also read one more chapter of Mousseline La Sérieuse, have worked through half of the second chapter of Teach Yourself Norwegian, and have drawn up a small vocabulary list from the first 42 pages of the beautiful Chineasy book.

Not much, but today is an incredibly slow day. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be awake enough to read without feeling incredibly drowsy.

Happy reading everyone! Wherever you are, I hope you are safe from harm.