Bedside reading

Friday
Nothing exciting during the day - Roger continued to work on the family room, while I did a few jobs around the house. Weather continued to be grey and dismal. In the evening we had a Symphony concert at the Music Hall - we went down early again to hear the pre-concert talk. The program was Brahms Variations on a theme of Haydn, (which apparently scholars have discovered wasn’t written by Haydn at all!), Haydn Symphony No 44 and Brahms Piano Concerto No 1, his first major orchestral work, written when he was only 25. There was an interesting moment during the Haydn Symphony, during a fairly quiet melodic section, when a bat flew into the auditorium from the back stage area - flew around a few times then disappeared back stage again! Apparently, he put in an appearance at last week’s concert too! I still hadn’t got a blip however before I went to bed, so I took a picture of the book which I am reading for Book Club, Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee. We won’t be doing it until January, as the December meeting is just a Christmas party and book exchange. Beginning in 1910 during the time of Japanese colonialization and ending many decades later in 1989, Pachinko is the epic saga of a Korean family told over four generations, and is a great read, including great character development, and historical and cultural insights- I can thoroughly recommend it, based on what I’ve read so far - about 2/3.