Better Than Friday - 33 (Patreon)

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1. Book in the pipeline - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom  

I know nothing about Harold Bloom, the literary critic who passed away last year, I have never read him, but this book was sent to me by a patron of the show, and it looks to be interesting.

Also, there was a good quote in this interview:

"Unless you read deeply, and in your own interest, unless you explore what is most profound in what has come before you, then you never will get down to the recesses to your own self."

A little about the book.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom.Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.

- Goodreads

2 What I'm Planning on doing for Fitness during lockdown...

Honestly, my life has not changed much. 

Except for the desperate cloying nagging realization that I can't go to the gym. 

So, in the meantime...I've decided to return to...

Hill Sprints. They're great. In a terrible, painful way. 

3. Cabin Fever 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds capture the creeping insanity that overtakes one spending a little too much time alone in a room. 

Pretty much the sound of everyone's mind right now. 

4. Archipelago is giving away ebooks for free 

This was brought to my attention on the discord channel. 

Thanks to the patron who mentioned it!

5. Lungs

This was stuck in my head not too long ago. 

A beautiful, haunting track by the Country singer Townes Van Zandt.