This week I've been mainly reading, No

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This week I've been mainly reading, No. 248.

Adrian Duncan's elegiac novella The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth (2025) is both a love poem to Bologna related by a narrator as flaneur & a melancholy meditation on loss. Not a lot happens but it remans compelling in its depiction of the inner life of its protagonist. Its a quiet & well-written narrative that really invokes what it is to be alive to your surroundings. A very satisfying, if short, read

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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I think you meant Bologna - not Bolognia! The city is a bit topical in Italy at the moment thanks to a particularly vicious act of terrorism by the violent far right.

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@alex_p_roe @bookstodon

Not sure how that rogue 'i' slipped in there; thanks for spotting it; now corrected....

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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Just claim it’s dialect - works for me when I mess up words in Italian (Well, it worked the first few times!)

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