She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 BC

This exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York from October 2022 to February 2023 looks fascinating! Wish I could spare the time to go and see it.

The exhibition covers the first known author by name in history - Enheduanna, the high priestess of the temple of the moon god in the city of Ur. She was the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon (ca. 2344-2279 BC). Her poetry reflected her deep devotion to the goddess of sexual love and warfare—Inanna in Sumerian, Ishtar in Akkadian.

Nov 23, 2022

I’m usually reading more than one novel at a time. Ill-disciplined? Or just greedy? #mbnov

Nov 19, 2022

I never tire of reading books. I could do it all the time :)

#mbnov #books #reading

Nov 18, 2022

Captivated and transported by Red Leap’s interpretation of Janet Frame’s “Owls Do Cry” this afternoon. It is now 65 years since the book was published; this performance gave it fresh relevance.

#writer #book #modernist #novel #autobiography #JanetFrame #Aotearoa #OwlsDoCry

Nov 13, 2022

This book looks fascinating: The Oldest Living Things in the World (Rachel Sussman)📚

Nov 13, 2022

Finished reading: Shadowlands by Matthew Green 📚

Nov 12, 2022

“Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.” Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall: A Novel, 2009) #mbnov

Nov 7, 2022

Finished reading: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune 📚

Jun 26, 2022

Finished reading: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo 📚

Jun 26, 2022

First paperback edition - Lord of the Rings

Repaired and rebound 1968 first paperback edition of the Lord of the Rings. This copy was bought by my father in 1968, and was the first read to me in the 1970s. Amazing work by @bookbindingetc