Late summer holidays.
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Late summer holidays.
Should I spend my summer in Cornwall, Copenhagen, California, or the French Countryside? I am feeling excited about #14books14weeks2023 and getting some traction on #serieslove23 at the same time. It‘s going to be a good good Summer!
pickI get that after 13 books you have to try something new in a series. So this book was ok because I know and like the characters and this got me over the fact that actually… nothing happened.
pickI bought this in 2013 in an occult science phase, started it in Dec. and finished last night. Pages of Hermetic magic, Latin untranslated, and the odd life of G Bruno and his spiritual infinite universe and mind, with memory, containing all things. He was burned in Rome in 1600.
The link between the drives of the metaphysical perspectives of religion, magic, and science may be a kind of enlightenment moment. Bruno might make a nice center point.
pickMusic in all its forms permeates this book.Bruno has organized a music festival & hopes to revitalize the career of an aging rock star. In the midst of this preparation, a Russian oligarch & his multinational conglomerate infiltrates the area under different guises. A sudden death might possibly be linked to the Russians.Of course there is Bergerac wine paired with mouth watering Perigord farm fresh meals enchanting me as I read.
pickWaiting for next in Inspector Gamache series from Louise Penny so thought I‘d take up where I left off in Bruno Courreges series. Superficial similarities between the two…male policemen who enjoy food, native French speakers, take place in small rural towns (one in France and one in Canada). That‘s where the similarities end. I prefer Louise Penny‘s writing, which gives me glimpses into the minds of the recurring characters and is more lyrical.
Back in Bruno‘s world of food, wine, horseback riding music, & murder.
Writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, which were considered ancient Wisdom. (The writings are a little younger than most New Testament writing, but no one knew that in the 1400‘s.) Ficino translated this for the Medici‘s and came up with a Hermetic magic. Pico della Mirandola merged it into Jewish Cabalism, creating a mystic religious magic, and a pope blessed it (!) before Pico died (age 31) - our antiquarian occult foundations.
I‘ve wanted to read this for years. Finally started (and the cat approves)
