Sunday, September 30, 2007

More Irish books

Between my latest library school class and writing reviews for the paper (latest one here), my efforts on poor spoonreader have been sporadic at best.
I have been reading though, making my way through some of the books I bought in Ireland.
  • Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic: a spooky-funny book about the ancients warrior clans of Ireland, with whimsical illustrations.
  • The Playboy of the Western World: a seminal play by John Synge that caused riots when it premiered in 1907 because of its comic treatment of patricide and its mention of women in their shifts (i.e. slips).
  • Hellfire: a contemporary novel about the drug trade among working-class Irish, with a female narrator, gypsy fortune-tellers and maybe ghosts. I just started this one so I'm still getting oriented.
I'm also thinking about overhauling spoonreader, maybe changing the focus or shutting it down and starting a new blog? I've been writing this blog for three years, which is kind of hard to believe. I'd like to post more often if I'm going to keep doing it. Maybe I need to just do that. Your thoughts?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't give up on spoonreader. We love it!

R. said...

Yes, I love to read spoonreader. At least keep some kind of blog, if you decide to focus on something besides books. I would miss your blogging if you stopped.

Anonymous said...

SOS: Save Our Spoonreader! The posts might be few and far between for now, but you'll pick up the pace again. It's a strong body of work.