…is to pair him with dark chocolate and red wine. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve read this book, it always boils my blood, and I need some some comfort when I get to the part about the overthrow of the mother right.
Reading Krupskaya
I have been asked to write an introduction to a new reprint of Nadezhda Krupskaya’s Reminiscences of Lenin, and I am very much enjoying the mental time I get to spend with the young Bolsheviks in exile.
My Guilty Pleasure
Well the grades are finally in, so I have had the pleasure of diving into one of my favorite genres of reading: the graphic novel. I binge-read all 39 issues of The Wicked and the Divine, reread some old favorites (Watchmen and Maus), and am now diving into Y the Last Man. Because I read a lot for my work, it is hard to find the time to read for pleasure. So the best thing about reading graphic novels is that I never have to have a highlighter or a pencil to mark any quotes or passages that I might use later in my own writing. I just get to lose myself in the stories!
