One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
I started Joan Didion’s We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live and so far so good. A lot of the pieces are about sex, drugs and rock and roll but then so were the sixties… Her writing is clear and thoughtful but now I’m venturing in to some of the more introspective essays and [...]
OK, Saturday is apple day. We will start processing millions of apples at 2pm. Come with cinnamon and sugar and gallon ziploc bags if you want pies, with jars or tubs if you want applesauce and with more jars or pitchers if you want juice (it’s really yummy juice). Of course if you just like [...]
I had a busy day of housework, baking and errands and did manage to finish Alice Munro’s Carried Away. Does anyone know if her short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” was ever turned into a movie? I was describing the plot to Jared and he thought it was one. Because I’m drowning in [...]
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 [...]
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Page: 227 Not too much reading today but I did work on my new blog. I really like the way it’s coming together but I don’t really have time for it. Still I can’t help but try to get the ideas out of my head. It’s kinda like labor right at [...]
The Only Problem Muriel Spark Page: 461 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Page: 381 I made risotto for dinner tonight. I’m in love with the Italians. How did one culture give us spaghetti, lasagna, risotto, pizza and the wonderful glories of Parmesan cheese? So much goodness, so little time. Jared and I leave tomorrow for [...]
The High Window Raymond Chandler Page: 656 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver’s Seat, The Only Problem Muriel Spark Page: 332 I feel like a domestic goddess today. I made my applesauce. Incidentally a bushel basket of apples makes a surprisingly small amount of applesauce. I only got [...]
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 [...]
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler Page: 235 I started yet another book trying to find something to cheer me up. Chandler isn’t exactly a bucket of sunshine but The Big Sleep went down easily. I’m still not sure what logic has hardboiled detective fiction on a list of classic literature, but [...]