Edward O'Connor – Writer, editor, part-time birder
What I’m Reading I have been ordering books from Librairie Gallimard in Montreal for about ten years. My last order consisted of the books shown in the photograph. I list them below with brief comments, and will return to each as I finish reading it. Three novels and one biography, or, I should say, a … Read more
What I’m Reading Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana (1937) An account in diary format of a trip through Persia (Iran) and Afghanistan that Byron made in 1933, primarily to examine the architecture of medieval monuments and places of worship. I found enthusiastic references to this author and his works in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s The … Read more