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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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🦋 The reading Magdalene

This is an evening of links! Today at Manosuelta's Weblog, I found some lovely pictures of paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, a Dutch artist whom I'd heard of before but never really looked at. Manosuelta is writing about a new exhibit of van der Weyden's work at the MusÃ©e de Leuven in Belgium (another review is at The Independent); I was very happy to turn to Google images and find troves of van der Weyden all over the web.

Besides the Magdalene to the right (who seems like a appropriate emblem for this site), I was really taken with this picture of Philippe de CroÃ¿, the right half of a diptych:

posted evening of Monday, October 12th, 2009
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➪	A new issue of The Quarterly Conversation hits the stands today, including a very interesting write-up of NYC author Eugene Marten's Waste, which Scott Wilson recommends for those who can "deal with a shocking amount of physical and psychological trauma distilled down into sharp, tight sentences."
➪	LanguageHat links to Roger Ebert's reflctions on the books that furnish his life, books that "pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor," like "little shrines to my past hours."

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