TBR And Some Recommendations

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Hello, dear Reader,

Hope your collective summers have gone well and I hope you enjoyed last week’s chapter. Over here the weather is once again sunny after over a week of overcast, rain, and some thunder and a little lighting. (I play favorites for the latter).

We’re coming up on the ending of my six week holiday, and any day now I’ll get a WhatsApp message detailing crew change. But that day is not yet!

Today I bring to you 5-3, titled: At The Sphinx’s Request. In it you’ll see why I had an image of a sphinx in my post two weeks ago. ;)

I shan’t go into details, for they are best experienced in the chapter itself.

 

What’ve I been doing? 

Besides writing, I have, of course, been reading. I picked up and finished a Wordsworth classics version of Sir. Gawain and the Green Knight, (very good read), and Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, which is currently underway. I am also re-listening to The Divine Comedy, and also for the first time Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

I also managed scrounge through my late mother’s treasure trove of books stacked within packing boxes deep in the recesses of my childhood home and found some gems which include: The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin; Babylon, Joan Oates, (underway); Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and The Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol. 13. Alchemical Studies, 1967 edition, C.G. Jung.

The two by Jung are especially good finds because I have a little personal project underway which is to read the entire Bollingen series, 20 volumes in total, and take notes along the way. (I already have all of them digitally, sourced from here, but physical copies for free are a plus).

Amazon.com: Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy Saga Book 1) eBook : Abnett ... 

Why? You ask.

Curiosity. And I’ve a certain something I want to do during my life, and I think these are the places to find the answers to what I’m looking for.

Doing MASSIVE reading projects isn’t new to me. I’ve read the entirety of the Horus Heresy series from start to finish in semi-chronological order. There are so many stories in that series, and it was published in such a scattered way that there is a helpful flowchart by Kyle's Gaming that allows one to tick off stories as one goes.

But, of course, you really can’t compare reading light fiction such as HH to the dense and demanding works of Jung. So, I expect this endeavor of mine will take some time.

Anyway!

I shan’t keep thee long.

Thank you, dear Reader, for being here once again. By next week’s Saturday I’ll most likely be at sea, so I’ll see you then!

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