200 Books

I didn’t finish Aesop’s Fables in time for book club. shocking I know. With the inevitability of having to finish before the year is out, you would think finishing within a two-week time frame would be simple. But you would be calculating without the dull, soulless morality of the Greeks. I simply cannot believe that a child would ever want to read this book. Dull little “fables” with boring but improbable events, extrapolated into highly complex and equally unlikely “reflections”.

I am done with Beloved. A huge relief. It is sad, improbable, sad, unappealing and, oh, sad. I’ve read it before and didn’t remember how horribly off-the-rails it goes. I listened to a “Slate” audio book club about it several years ago and was relieved to find that it has not entirely entered the canon despite Oprah’s Seal of Approval.

I’m working on developing a new literary theory. I’ll let you know how that goes.

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