Reading material

Currently reading and enjoying Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage. Also Amélie Nothomb's Le Fait du Prince, having previously read a couple of Ishiguro's novels. More to follow on the novels I've been enjoying in recent months.

Further warblings on Verne's and Struthers' 'A Winter's Sojourn In The Ice'

In my last post of November 2017 I was writing about the above Verne novella which is now being republished, in serialized form, in the Newsletter Extraordinary Journeys of the North American Jules Verne Society. In their most recent winter edition of this journal, the first few chapters of William Struthers' rendering into English of this Verne adventure have been published, accompanied by an essay I wrote by way of introduction to this novella. I gave a brief synopsis of the plot in my last post to this blog, and my introductory essay in the above journal concludes that the translation is highly accurate and complete. I would recommend this Verne story highly to aficionados of this French author.