One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
Waugh Abroad Page: 1063 Finished
Northanger Abbey Page: 130
I finished Waugh and intended to work on finishing Genji which has been languishing. But Northanger Abbey came in the mail today and reminded me that our new book club is supposed to be starting Thursday and I needed to read for it. Fortunately Austen’s novel is only [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 1000
Today’s post will be more interesting than usual. I give you Evelyn Waugh.
Referring to shorts: “…the craven preference for comfort over dignity.”
While on board ship: “I got through two books a day…”
On an mid 19th century shipping incident: “It is wrong to represent bureaucracy as an evil contrived soley by socialists. It [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 787
Another day off. Another blissful dip into ‘normal’ life. Quinn continues to handle Veritas on Sundays and we have now been to church twice, picnicked once and worked on the yard together twice. I’ve napped every week and we’ve taken several walks. Good times.
Reading Waugh is now giving me an education on [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 722
I marked my first book today. Page 584 of Waugh Abroad. In pencil. Highlighting the original of a passage in one of his novels. I feel slightly dirty and very exhilarated. I’m thrilled to think that I can thumb back through the book at any time and find that little paragraph noted; [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 528
Tonight Veritas hosted Steve Olsen-Smith’s Melville Marginalia presentation. This meant two things to me. An opportunity to interact with people who love and understand books and an opportunity to fizzle on my daily reading. I started the day on the note by failing to get up at 7. First I “forgot” to [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 385
Another day, another crappy page count. I got up at the crack of 7 as planned this morning and after grabbing a glass of orange juice and reading about a page and a half Luc woke up. I eventually managed to soothe him back to sleep and get in about five more [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 280
I had been expecting humorous commentary and was consequently somewhat disappointed in Waugh’s more straightforward reportage. Their have been a few amusing and snarcastic asides but on the whole he’s been fairly serious. Well today I’ve seen what that seriousness is good for. Waugh observed a remote African monastery’s Mass and took [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 152
Sorry about yesterday’s short post. Sometimes I end up completely brain-dead at the close of the day. I enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale yesterday although I think it was a bit much to take in one sitting. I’d recommend reading it’s 300+ pages over the course of a few days interspersed with something [...]
The Handmaid’s Tale By Margaret Atwood Page: 350
I worked hard to get extra reading in today. And of course I ended up with no mental energy left to write an interesting post. Also being completely emotionally drained from the dystopian vision of Atwood I’ve got nothing.
One thought though. Why don’t any of these 20th century [...]
Guess who didn’t read today. I’ll give you three tries.
Busy day of course, as if that justifies things. We went to breakfast with friends, to church, napped, delivered lunch to Quinn, cleaned up the backyard and made dinner. Now we are settling in to watch a movie and finish our bottle of wine. Tentative plan [...]