Tag: Reading

A Return to Form

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I’ve let an unconscionable amount of time slip by since I last posted to Amnesiac’s Library so I’d like to re-introduce myself. My name is Richard Kirk. Friends know me as Rick. My twin passions are art and books. I have a WordPress blog where interested parties can keep up with the art end of things, but I created Amnesiac’s Library some time ago to document my love of books, real paper books (full disclosure, I do have a Kindle, 3 in fact, but it’s just not the same is it?) Amnesiac’s Library is a dedicated place to highlight what I am reading, cool used book shop finds, book related things that catch my eye and from time to time, my own writing. If you love books as much as I do, please consider subscribing to Amnesiac’s Library!

Reading List

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So many books are inextricably connected with friendships. I still remember the moment in the 1970s when a friend insisted I read Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis while we were waiting for his Greyhound in a snowstorm. He nearly missed his bus when we made a mad dash for a nearby bookstore. On another occasion I was leaving a friend’s house in Toronto when she handed me a copy of John Crowley’s Little, Big, a book that remains a favorite to this day. A few years ago, my friend Tim passed away. Our friendship was based on words – we never met in the real world, just online. Tim, a writer and instructor of writing during his life, was well read and often recommended authors to me. Here are few, which include some old friends and some yet to meet.

Paul West

Frank Kafka

Adolpho Biyo Carares

Elias Canetti

Borges

Silvina Ocampo

Julio Cortazar

Robert Walser

Thomas Ligotti

Walter Benjamin

Robert W. Chambers

Poe

Umberto Echo

Gerard de Nerval

Vladimir Nabokov

Hugh Walpole: The Best Supernatural

William Sansom

Hoffmann

Samuel Beckett

Thomas Bernhard

Blanchot

Stanislaw Lem

Jean Paulhan