Sorry cant rotate it so tilt your heads!
Well, back to books after a detour to music festivals. I have had a great time over the last 2 weeks downloading e-books for my Ipad and have been delighted fhat there are great classics freely available.
Now I know there is
nothing nicer than the smell of fresh printing ink and paper, but I don't like reading old books if they are not in good condition (and a lot of mine are old second- hand ones). They fall apart, have squashed silverfish in them, are dusty and smell.
So
I'm happy with reading books from my iPad whenever, whatever and wherever I feel like it!
I've downloaded F. Scott Fitzgerald, H,G.Wells , the Brontes , Melville , Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy and I have just read Rudyard Kipling's
Kim being inspired by The Mysterious Mr Jacobs etc by John zubrinski "s mysterious, shadowy
The book is very evocative of India and love the Llamas pilgrimage to the River of the Arrow.
Inspired me to get out my old, beautifully illustrated
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khuyyoum. My copy is beautifully illustrated by Sarkis Katchadourian, who was a Persian artist in the forties and fifties- He was born in Iran, educated in Rome, Paris and Munich who loved to recreate the romantic frescoes in the old palaces
of Islaham. His works are displayed in many world- famous museums.
And Omar Khayyam? Well, he was genius in writing, mathematics and astronomy, as well as a court poet, scientist and radical philosopher. And he is a Persian Shakespeare, born 400 years
earlier, in the C11th, witty, melodic and insightful. Read about his amazing life on google search... There should be a more recent movie made about him. ( Viggo Mortensen?)
you know the lines
" A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A
jug if Wine,a Loaf of Bread and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness....
Oh, Wilderness is Paradise now!"
( I always thought they were Shakespearean lines)
and
"Come fill the Cup and in the
Fire of Spring
Your Winter garment of Repentance fling,
The Bird of Time has but a little Way
To flutter... And the Bird is on the Wing!"
How good is this! I'm going to drive people mad reciting these lines. (to be recited with
a big brimming goblet of wine and strewing rose petals, of course!)