This past week I read The Trial by Franz Kafka. This is the first of many of his books that I’m planning on diving in to this year. Bummer that he passed before finishing this one, but I think that adds to the ambiguous, almost haunting nature of the subject matter.
Couldn’t tell ya what he was even tried for in the first place, but I had a great time reading nonetheless.
^ This is how I take notes on what I read btw. I’ll go through and make a mark in the margins next to a particular line, phrase, or word that jumps off the page. I record where it’s found in the book, and then jot down whatever I think might be good to incorporate into my own writing, or might be fun to reflect on and save for the future.
Next up is a non-fiction piece by none other than Stephen Hawking. Title - A Brief History of Time. If the time allows, I’ll also try to work through a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays that have been gathering mounds of dust on the bookshelf for quite awhile.
see ya’ll next week
kindly,
-mike
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Books I’ve Read in 2024
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy - 1.5.24
Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley - 1.10.24
Mastery by Robert Greene (audio) - 1.12.24
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles - 1.12.24
Is God Real? by Lee Strobel - 1.14.24
Tennyson’s Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson - 1.18.24
Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway - 1.20.24
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey - 1.25.24