It’s like finally getting a good pair glasses after years of blurry vision and blindspots.

And holy shit, “sonic micro opera” of Finnegans Wake sounds bloody amazing.

As for the book, it’s one of my favorites. It’s both a mind trip and a literary feast. It’s playful and odd and musical and wild and confusing all at once. There’s also a couple recordings of Joyce reading excerpts of Finnegans Wake and Ulysses on ye olde youtubes, which are pretty interesting, because it’s like getting to hear Beethoven play the piano in person, through time. Plus, his accent is hella fun.

I can totally relate to this. We had to read it in school (American system school) and there was no mention of the historical context. When I had to read it again in college, it broke my brain and made me want to revisit so many books I’d read in the past in search of whatever deeper context I might have missed or wasn’t made aware of back in school. Same thing happened to me with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake after I reread them with added guides. Those rereads made me fall in love with James Joyce. Literature never ceases to amaze me with its ability to short-circuit our brains.

The Bobiverse sounds so fun xD

Definitely adding it to my vacation stack. The coffee one was “Coffee A Global History” by Jonathan Harris (or Morris? I can’t recall which). But it was really interesting and not very long. Short and sweet.

That sounds absolutely fascinating! I love hyper-specific nonfiction like that. I once read a book about the history of coffee and I learned so much more than I expected.