I pretty much finish every book I start. This isn't too challenging as I generally only pick belletrist literature or highly recommended non-fiction. I am not too proud to admit that Infinite Jest is napping safely on the shelf, a few hundred pages to go, after checking online whether to file it under Foster or Wallace. Late, great, sad David, you may have won this battle but, once I regain a regular block of reading time before 10 pm, I will return for my vengeance. You will be finished.
For my post-modern recovery I prescribed Burney's Evelina, which I stayed up way too late to inhale in a few days. I read Camilla last year & instantly wondered why more people don't. I think it is as good as any Austen & way better than anything except Pride & Prejudice & Persuasion. They share the comedy of manners & gentle satire, yet Burney is much more emotionally evocative & her ear for dialogue is superb. There are a few very disturbing, almost Gothic moments that really stick & her insights into the pitfalls of money were very apropos to 2009, when I read it. Evelina was a proseco to Camilla's brunello, very predictable, considerably lighter & incredible fun.
Now to read our bookgroup book, Patricia Highsmith's Deep Water.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Wille zum bloggen
I intend to return to blogging. No promises, but my urges for exhibitionist prose are no longer satisfied by the soundbite of the FB status update & I think I've finally shook off all the followers from the last blog whose sole purpose of following was to nag my husband, "Tell Mila to post more pictures of the kids." Not that I'll never post pictures of the kids. They're pretty darned cute. I just want my public ramblings back on my terms.
This time I am going to attempt to write at least 5 days per week for approximately 10 minutes. Maybe more, but certainly not less. I reserve the right to break it into multiple posts, just so I don't start to feel like I'm back in my 9th grade English class in which the teacher wrote a quote on the board every day & we had 10 minutes to write about it in a response journal. Not a bad exercise for spontaneity, that.
We shall see how it goes, this time.
This time I am going to attempt to write at least 5 days per week for approximately 10 minutes. Maybe more, but certainly not less. I reserve the right to break it into multiple posts, just so I don't start to feel like I'm back in my 9th grade English class in which the teacher wrote a quote on the board every day & we had 10 minutes to write about it in a response journal. Not a bad exercise for spontaneity, that.
We shall see how it goes, this time.
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