My "Summer-Reading" for 2025
The other day I finished reading Ernest Hemingway's classic "The Old Man and the Sea" and enjoyed it a lot and since I am, as I have to admit, completely unfamiliar with his writing and doing something against that was more than overdue I guess.
During the last week I read in Austin Kleon's newsletter about the classics (does Hemingway count already as the classics?) and after finishing my last book(s) I was looking for something different. Thus I started to read this book, partly because it is quite short and it felt like a good start.
I am glad I did and it was a great brook, which given that it is a classic, shouldn't be much of a surprise.
With the summer-vacation more or less just started, I decided it would be good idea to make a plan with titles to read next (admittedly I already started two of those since I started to write this, but still).
- Michael Palin: There And Back - reading other people's journals/diaries turns out to be quite inspiring, and since I have been keeping a journal for many years, I am looking forward to have a look into his
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara And The Sun - I bought this in a local bookstore for no other reason than having heard about the title before.
- Ernest Hemingway - I think I might continue with some of his short stories, likely "Men without Women" as Haruki Murakami clearly used the title as inspiration for his own collection of stories.
- Robin Ince: Bibliomaniac - I already read this before, but did so in form of the audiobook (I enjoy his own reading of the books) and he mentions sooo many interesting books in it, that would like to read this again, as a real, physical book so that I can make notes of these books and read them myself.
I try to make it a habit to always have one physical book with me so that I can do some reading whenever I have some free time.
Five books, doesn't seem to be too much or too little for the next five (or so weeks), but let's see how this list is going to work out.