The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
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 [...]
I read all of The Secret Garden yesterday and I’m really over pedantic children’s literature. Ok, ok, I get it, fresh air and plain food are all the world needs… In other news the boys and I had an absolutely fabulous day. We played, I worked and hardly a fussy note escaped either of them! [...]
I finished The Radetzky March. Good book, very moving and tragic. Also read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Freaking weird little book. I did not like it at all! It was abrupt, repetitive, creepy and arbitrary. There seemed no sense of wonder or beauty or myth about it. I can’t believe that it has the [...]
I read quite a bit today. After finishing The Rights of Man this morning and blogging the boys and I went for a walk to the bank. I read about half of Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys on the walk and then finished it over the too short nap time. It was [...]
Today I finished The Complete Bech (still not happy with how Updike played with his character in the next-to-last story), read all of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and part of The Rights of Man. 143 down. 57 to go! I thought a lot of Common Sense was neither common nor sense, but then I’m a [...]
I’m almost done with Updike’s book (The Complete Henry Bech) and it’s taken a weird turn. I’m still somewhat impressed by the book but if these last 40 pages keep up with this new turn, I’m not sure how I’ll take it. It’s like Updike just thought “Hmmm…I haven’t ever written a murder mystery…I guess [...]
I’m tired of updating my daily page count. It’s getting depressing. I’m some six thousand pages behind where I should be and seriously beginning to wonder where the extra time is going to come from in the next few months. I’m just going to keep track over on the list page of how many titles [...]
This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald Page: 200 Fitzgerald’s style is unusual and surprising. I hadn’t expected the variations of mode or the easy familiarity. I don’t remember The Great Gatsby employing any of these techniques. Still, good book, and very worthwhile. I like novels about education or coming of age. I could [...]
Crime and Punishment Page: 450 Oops. I forgot to post last night. But since it’s six thirty in the morning what’s the difference really? The boys have been getting up awfully early lately meaning that no matter how hard I try to rise and shine, the shine part isn’t working out so well. Sad. We [...]
Farewell, My Lovely & The High Window by Raymond Chandler Page: 500 As expected I had a busy day today. I’ll come back and edit the post later tonight when I finish reading but I wanted to put today’s photos up…especially the tat ones! Apples on the tree. Despite the plethora on the tree this [...]