24in48 - Reading Session 4
My Sunday morning session is complete and I am at 16 hours 35ish minutes
Reading the Byron continues to be slow but engaging, I think I’m finding myself having to read some of the letters a couple of times to really get the context of them which is really slowing me down. It’s interesting to see the hints of his anorexia and mental illness portrayed through brief glimpses in his letters, and that his affair with his own sister was permitted to be put in writing, but his allusions to his bisexuality had to be generally more coded. It’s fascinating, in what he felt he could put to paper, even if the letters weren’t really intended for public consumption, I hadn’t properly known his biography (bar his involvement with the Shelley’s and that he was always trying to compensate for the physical deformity of his club foot by being an excellent swimmer) and to be able to see all these other details of his life through his correspondence is insightful.
I also finished Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - An excellent overview and a way to direct further reading. Even if a not particularly in depth analysis of any one area, it makes you aware of the scope of the problem in other realms that you had not previously considered, for me I’d never noticed the political rhetoric surrounding class and whiteness in politics, and now it’s definitely something I’m interested to read more about, particularly in relation to the great British class survey.
Finally, I’ve started Felix Ever After, I’m at the 30ish percent mark which is where most people apparently stumble due to Felix’s attitude and approach to their problems, but I see that other readers felt the same way and still gave the book 5 stars, so I happily continue.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Selected Letters and Journals by Lord Byron - page 111
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender - 37%
Cottonmouths by Kelly J Ford
