The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
So I’m gone as of three pm tomorrow…gone to peace and quiet and rest and lots of reading. Don’t forget to add your guess of how many pages I will read over the weekend two posts down. Right now we have a range from 67 & 3/4 (thank you Brent for the vote of confidence!) [...]
I finished Zeno’s Conscience and although I pretty thoroughly despise Zeno, I think Italo Svevo wasn’t half bad. The book is a masterful example of the unreliable narrator. Then I started Dubliners and took a good whack at it. I first read many of the stories in a Lit class and as I go back [...]
Some days I type out that day number and panic a bit. I can’t believe how fast the year is going… I really wanted to finish Zeno’s Conscience but Jared, wine, chocolate and The Colbert Report were calling my name so quit about 70 pages from the end. I had another busy day and finished [...]
Zeno’s Conscience is a longer book so even though I read quite a bit yesterday, I’m still only about halfway. It’s been a great books so far, truly a modern classic, and I’ve barely noticed the translation so that’s good but since starting it, I’ve had two big deja vu moments that are starting to [...]
I finished The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and started Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo. I’m still not a Joyce fan but I admire The Portrait and what it accomplished much more than I do Ulysses and what it represents. I still have Dubliners on my list and I remember liking much [...]
Finished Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges this morning and then read about half of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I didn’t realize that this book was about Stephen Dedalus but it is and so far it is pretty good. As a story of the education of a youth I [...]
Wow. I must have gotten very uninteresting lately because no one has commented for three days… I finished Pale Fire today and found it highly amusing. Satirical literary criticism…and an imaginary Eastern European country…and an imaginary deposed king and his imaginary assasain. Fun stuff. Unfortunately I should have read twice as much in the last [...]
I WANT MORE SLEEP! Alex was up crying again last night and since Luc spent all day yesterday crying unless he was actively being held or fed I didn’t really feel up to dealing with more fussiness. I’d already stayed up kinda late reading so when the screeching started I had barely dropped off to [...]
I finished Midnight’s Children and started Aesop’s Fables. Jared went out last night to visit with an old friend so I should have been super productive all evening (after the boys went to bed of course). Instead I read a little, surfed the internet, and then fell asleep. For some reason I have a really [...]
The more novels I read the more I see the multitude of ways one can hurt a child. Nearly all of the books I’ve been reading touch on some way a parent has screwed up their kid. Neglect, abuse, mockery, misunderstanding; they all proliferate. It’s sad really, but also is a multitude of good lessons [...]