Skinner   Charlie Huston
Wonderful thriller filled with high intelligence, current events, and surprises, all written in perfect, invisible prose. Loved Skinner, and especially Jae, and Dharavi. Even though we got nicely to the end of the configuration, wished it wouldn’t end.

Duino Elegies   Rainer Maria Rilke
Stunningly beautiful poems in Stephen Mitchell’s beautiful translation. Can’t remember how many times I’ve read them, but they never disappoint. Too many angels, but that’s OK. The Ninth Elegy is still my favorite:
                      “ Ah, but what can we take along
into that other realm? Not the art of looking,
which is learned so slowly, and nothing that happened here. Nothing.
The sufferings, then. And, above all, the heaviness,
and the long experience of love...”