This is not exactly an uplifting read, but it is absorbing, and the writing, as our own Ron Charles put it, is “a series of emerald moments.”Ĭontinuing my sojourn to Ireland, I’m riding through that country’s green hills and beyond - well beyond - with the audacious writer and cyclist Dervla Murphy, who chronicled her unlikely trip from Ireland to India in 1963, alone on a bicycle, in “ Full Tilt.” The book, which I learned about while reading Murphy’s obituary last year, was written as diary entries in real time, which makes it easy to dip in and out. (Not pictured in that category: Runner’s World, the Washingtonian, New York and the London Review of Books.) I started Donal Ryan’s “ The Queen of Dirt Island” a few weeks ago and was immediately captivated by the first line, “She was born,” and how quickly the story got going that baby’s father dies on the next page.
As you can see from this photo, there’s also some magazine reading involved, to mix things up. I usually read several books at once, though sadly I often don’t finish all of them. I can’t read in bed or will fall asleep immediately. This is my reading chair, new (Ikea still a bit pricey, but worth it).
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