I have decided to undertake some gentle reading today, following the excesses of yesterday. I spent yesterday visiting the Cambridge Beer Festival, a tradition that my friends and I have followed for many years. Every year we take the last Friday of the beer festival, the Friday before the Spring Bank Holiday, off of work and spend the day at the beer festival. This year for the first time in many years the weather was atrocious. It rained pretty much all day, turning the field in which the marquee was pitched into a muddy bog. Still, there were plenty of interesting beers to sample, and sample them we did. Needless to say I have been feeling a little delicate today, and in particular, very lethargic.
I decided the best option would be to find something reasonably easy to read whilst mildly hung over. I am reading ‘The Vintage Teacup Club’ by Vanessa Greene. Then I want to make some head way with rest of my reading over the bank holiday weekend. I am still working my way slowly through Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’. Then I am finally going to get started on reading Raymond. E. Feist’s Magician’s End. In fact I have just slipped the perfect, as yet undamaged, dust cover from my copy of Magician’s End in preparation. After this I think I am going to start Emile Zola’s ‘The Fortune of the Rougons’, the first part of the twenty book ‘Les Rougon-Macquart’ cycle.
So some decent goals set up. Now all that remains is for me to fail to achieve them. Not that I intend to get all of this reading done this weekend, it is likely to take a bit longer than that.
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It’s been years since I read ‘The Odyssey’. That’s a great book. I liked it more than ‘The Iliad’.
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I think it is going to be years until I have read ‘The Odyssey’ 🙂 Joking aside, it is interesting, but certainly not the easiest of reads. I have to take it in very short bursts. I am glad you liked it.
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I may have the same marching band drumming in my own head today:) lessons we learn. Good luck with your reading pursuit this weekend and do enjoy the well deserved time off.
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Thank you, and enjoy your writers retreat. Do we actually learn those lessons though?
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Not well I should admit, or least ways I never do:)
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It’s pretty much the same here – but I think as we get older we probably do these things less often
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You are still young enough to be carefree Julian:)
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As are you, so let’s just be carefree together 🙂
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I feel old today:) something about strawberry daiquiri
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That’s what you get drinking these fancy drinks!
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I blame the sugar more than the actual alcohol which was small by volume
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Then again I did not have the option of the Oscar brew;)
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I am sure you would have loved it – the literary connection was perfect, made me think of you 🙂
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Believe it or not many of these people have never heard of Proust lol I wonder if they have been dipping Oscar’s special formula?
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They could have been. Perhaps it contains something that then makes them unaware of all other authors but Oscar
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I must figure out this formula, then we can take over the world!
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Great plan, I was thinking of using it as an idea for a short story 🙂
I’ll get started on discovering this formula when I get back to work!
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Lol let me know if you are a success:)
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