Weekly Reading Wrap-Up: Bodies, Absurdity and Fire

[@BobTheBookerer]

Just realising now that Editing Bob forgot to add a picture of the dog! Sorry! I will try to get him in the next one!

[@GayDonaldMac]

😂

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

Citizen is extraordinary. I think I truly understood the impact of micro-aggressions by reading it a few years ago.

[@BobTheBookerer]

Oh it’s wonderful, right! There’s such a precision and wisdom to the writing that I found utterly engaging.

[@readandre-read]

Toward Eternity is on my TBR - it sounds completely up my alley. Citizen sounds interesting, too.

[@BobTheBookerer]

Yes! I think it’s such a fun take on the more ‘typical’ sci-fi tropes!

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

I’m still holding out for you eventually dog sitting in a mansion or castle. Sitting in a giant wing back chair, with a brandy in one hand, surrounded by a Great Dane , Irish Wolfhound and an Alsatian at your feet.

[@BobTheBookerer]

Ahahah, I cannot wait! That’s the dream!

[@BookishAdventuresInWellbeing]

Love to see dog sitting Bob. Mod dog next time please! I have Let Us Descend on my wish list and am curious about Spent Light.

[@wavaleebranch]

Just added TOWARD ETERNITY to my list. THANKS.

[@BobTheBookerer]

Ooh, enjoy! It’s a really fun one, I think!

[@SupposedlyFun]

I saw the revival of The Normal Heart on Broadway and it was brilliant.

[@BobTheBookerer]

Oooh, I would have loved to have been there!

[@Elnora-i6e]

Hi. I just discovered you and I'm happy about that. I love your personality, honesty, and love for books! I look forward to going back through your videos and following you moving forward. Thank you

[@BobTheBookerer]

Ahh, thank you so much, that’s so kind of you!

[@gayeonlee24816]

I found your channel just now, and I already love it! You have such a way with words. You describe the books in such perfect detail. I'm going to check out Toward Eternity. Thanks for a great video!

[@BobTheBookerer]

Ahh, thank you so much! I really appreciate it, and that’s so kind!

[@antonhur887]

Thank you so much for your thoughts on TOWARD ETERNITY, Bob! It’s so gratifying to have been read so carefully 😭💜 What survives after copy after copy, recitation after recitation was definitely my preoccupation in this book, especially as a translator (what is carried over in the translation and what is not)~*

[@MarcNash]

I can highly recommend Larry Kramer's final novel before he died "The American People: Volume 2" which traces the whole AIDS crisis and its facilitators in a manner as exuberant and not giving a damn as Milward's "Man-Eating Typewriter" only this was for real.

[@BobTheBookerer]

Ooh, thank you! I hadn’t heard of that one!

[@bookofdust]

The New York Times today has an interesting article on translators as authors and Hur and Croft are prominently covered, its work seeking out.

[@BobTheBookerer]

Oooh, thank you! Will do!