Day One Hundred and Seventy-Four
The Tale of Genji Page: 960
Before I started this blog I had no idea that there were a gazillion book blogs out there already. Thanks to WordPress’s incoming link tracking, I’ve discovered that they’re all over. Other readers find my blog and then post about it and link back to me. Sometimes I’m annoyed when a commenter on their blog says something critical but usually I’m just grateful for the recognition. It’s funny to me how often I’m misquoted or misunderstood and I’m genuinely shocked how many book bloggers out there simply don’t read classic literature. Every book on my list this year is considered classic in some sense, many are simply 20th century classics or children’s classics but out of the 80 or so I’ve read so far there have only been three or four that I would not ever recommend. With such a wealth of certain satisfaction why do people chase best-sellers? I’m also amazed that people (not specifically the bloggers) can considered themselves well-read and hardly ever crack anything more challenging than Oprah’s latest “discovery”. I mean seriously, James Frey? It doesn’t matter if it was true or fabricated, it is just not worthwhile. Classic lit includes such rich and deep works as Augustine’s Confessions or Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina but it also includes cheery, uplifting and fulfilling books like all of Austen’s novels, Jane Eyre and The BFG. READ THESE FANTASTIC BOOKS PEOPLE!…ok…rant over…