(Audio)Books I've actually (re-)finished lately: 123

To be alive as Chaucer was not the same as to be alive as Milton - or Tennyson, or Eliot, or Plath.

- Peter Whitfield

The terrible truth about social media

Crap

that will surely set you back a fortune.

Although I do quite like the Prufock mug.

The Eliot app

If I were to go out and purchase an iPad just so's to be able to read the Waste Land in its new-and-million-selling app incarnation, it would - I estimate, at a total of about £400 - be by some margin the most expensive book I have ever bought.*

But this article has given me cause to consider it.**

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* not to mention, of course, that I already own a copy.
** also, see third paragraph from bottom for splendidly ironic dysfunctional-meta-data gaffe.

And vice versa!

These fragments I have shored against my own ruins.

- TS Eliot, The Waste Land

Books I started reading in the last ten days

(in no particular order)

Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Collected Poems 1909-1962 - T.S. Eliot
Borges and the Eternal Orang-utans - Luis Fernando Verissimo
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
The Abortion: an historical romance 1966 - Richard Brautigan
Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin - ed. Elizabeth Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare