Today marks the beginning of Persephone Reading Weekend, run by Verity and Claire. If you haven't already, do pay a visit to their blogs and check out their Persephone-related posts and competitions over this weekend. As I mentioned before, I'll be reading Dimanche and Others Stories over the next couple of days, as I never did get round to starting it before! It's one of the most recent publications by Persephone, and I'm really excited about reading it. I've never read Irene Nemirovsky's most famous book -- Suite Francaise -- but have heard so many excellent things about it that I plan to seek it out once I've finished these short stories. If I like them of course, but my past experience of Persephone tells me that I'm likely to! The last set of short stories published by them that I read was the utterly entrancing Tea with Mr Rochester by Frances Towers, so I am eagerly anticipating my next grey-covered venture into this genre.
I've had rather a painful few days with a wisdom tooth coming through -- and it's not over yet, unfortunately! -- so relaxing with a good book is exactly what I need. Although I also have a busy weekend coming up: a trip to consult some manuscripts at the British Library tomorrow, followed in the evening by my first trip to the Royal Opera House to see their exciting new production: Anna Nicole. I'll be reporting back on what I think of it next week! Then on Sunday it's up to Hampstead for a long overdue catch up lunch with skirmishofwit. All in all, it should be a lovely weekend (presuming my tooth allows me to eat!), and Dimanche will be the perfect travel companion on the train to London and back.
Until then, I leave you with a sentence from Sir W's 1600 essay 'Of Discontentments'. It might be my dentist, rather than Philosophy who told me to expect my own current tooth-ache, but I can't say that such preparation makes it particularly easier to 'entertain'...
'when any of these Tooth-aches of the body come, shee [Philosophy] teacheth that they are to be entertained, not as straungers, but as Familiars that we haue long expected'.
5 comments:
Looking forward to seeing you Sophie, as well as your thoughts on Dimanche!
Hi Sophie,
Will you let us know all about Anna Nicole!? Also would love to hear about your British Library visit... Have a good weekend.
I hope you are enjoying Dimanche, Sophie! I hope to pop up a review of it over the weekend.
Have fun catching up with Miranda. I empathise with your wisdom tooth pain (I had to have three non-erupted ones removed a few years ago).
I hope Dimanche and Other Stories brings you comfort over the weekend. I just realised I have an audiobook version of these stories. I did not know it was a Persephone title too.
Miranda: it was lovely to see you!
Merenia: I'll be posting about Anna Nicole very soon, but suffice to say for the moment that it was a fantastic evening! Sadly we didn't make it to the BL, but there should be ample opportunity for posts about that in the future...
Claire: Thank you, my tooth is much better! And I'm v much enjoying Dimanche so far -- I shall look forward to reviewing it properly soon.
Iris: Thanks for commenting! I imagine that Dimanche makes a great audio book.
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