Hi all,
Welcome back for another month with TOA. There have been some minor changes over the summer and I expect the same sort of thing to continue in September. Here's a quick rundown of what I know at the moment.
The short Tuesday posts went over well (mathematical integrity excepted) so I'll continue doing those. Starting next Saturday, I'll start posting quick 'reading reviews'. These will resemble the monthly or author-centric 'reading recaps' I used to write. At a higher level, the new Saturday posts continue the process of disassembling the proper admin concept down into their more basic components.
Clever readers counting at home will note the Saturday blogs bring the weekly tally up to five per week. Is there an end in sight? Certainly not, I say! If things go well, I will add another day of blogs for October.
Finally, I'm in the process of adding new faces to the TOA roster to take on specific types of posts. A couple of the names will be familiar to longtime readers. I'm particularly excited for one new personality likely coming into the fold. This addition's primarily responsibility will be to resurrect the 'talking shits' series (under a new brand name, of course) and I'm excited for the potential (though I must say, a little disappointed so far with the pace).
More to come on this in October, I'm sure. I bet you can hardly wait, reader.
Until then, all the best. Thanks for reading this past month.
Tim
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Books I'm excited to (most likely) read this month...
Organized using the categories outlined in yesterday's post!
*Dense: The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
Sometimes, I find it challenging to determine which books will go into which category. Not so with this one. The first review I saw of it said, '...(for Stevens) the real and the abstract were interwoven in ways that begged his decoding...'
I have a hunch this book will be a bit on the, er, thicker side.
*Stop-and-go: The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
It appears this falls into the category of old books people like to compare to blogs. The topic, in general, is 11th-century Japanese court life. I'm surprised no one has made a movie of it yet, quite frankly.
*Light: Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
According to Ben Horowitz's Hard Thing About Hard Things, this set of timeless fables is a sneaky-good management book. We'll see (or, I should say, I'll see, and maybe then write about it, or not). But in any event, I do not foresee this read being particularly taxing.
In the next month of...True On Average...
1) Finally, Ricky Rubio...Ricky? You there?
2) I reveal my secret hunch about a Hemingway classic...
3) An upside-down triangle!
See you in September.
-August 2017
