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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog

It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.

Currently reading

Station Zero
Philip Reeve
Progress: 220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Vess
Progress: 749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Robert Chandler
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Patrick O'Brian
Progress: 8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
Marguerite de Navarre
Progress: 152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
John Masefield
Progress: 78/534 pages
Poems Selected
Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
Progress: 4/50 pages
Selected Poems
U A Fanthorpe
Progress: 18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Mick Imlah, Robert Crawford
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
Ursula K. Le Guin
Progress: 133/789 pages

Reading progress update: I've read 8 out of 80 pages.

Director's Choice Gemaldegalerie Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin - Michael Eissenhauer

Choosing 37 from a collection of ~3,000 paintings must be a challenge. The first depicts preparations for Jesus' first bath, apparently a bit of an obsession for 15th century Christians. There all sorts of interesting things going on, what with angels helping Joseph repair the roof and fill the bath and Mary drinking soup to recover from the birth - and Jesus precociously walking already.