Reading more!
I have finished a couple of books in the last few days and it makes me happy.
I reread The Handmaid’s Tale and liked it even more the second time around. It is especially notable for its unheroic heroine and relatable villains. I admire Atwood’s restraint and style.
I also read Flannery O’Connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge. It was disturbing, excellent and further evidence that Evangelicals will never be the artists that Catholics are. I can just imagine the horrible endings Jenkins or Peretti or LaHaye would cook up for these elegant, rich little short stories.
I bought two books last night. They were paperbacks. Sad I know, but they were all I could afford and the only way to quickly get a copy of the books I wanted to read. They are The Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison. I have wanted to read The Road since finishing McCarthy’s Border Trilogy last year. I’m 75 pages in and it’s about as bleak a novel as I could imagine.
After a long conversation last night I am newly inspired to start writing again…may be nothing, may turn into a different project but I may just be going back to the book…we’ll see.