The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
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 [...]
Moby Dick Herman Melville Page: 640 Finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Page: 60 I’m a squealing little girl. All twitchy and jumpy. Our campsite was on the other side of the plagues of Egypt. No, there wasn’t a river of blood and Jared didn’t die but there were about a million little frogs. A [...]
Hello all, this is Jared, Mandi’s husband, and father of her two beautiful children you have seen so many pictures of. Mandi is desperately trying to get her page count in this evening after a few days of disappointing reading numbers. So she has, for some reason, asked me to fill her shoes for the [...]
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 [...]
I’m going to watch a movie with my husband instead of blogging tonight. Comment on THAT!
The Sword of Honour Trilogy Page: 313 I didn’t get many pages read but I did have a very productive day yesterday. Alex and Luc and I ran a couple of errands in the early morning on the bike and then came home and cleaned out our new car. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it [...]
The Cairo Trilogy Page: 1040 For the few of you that might pay attention to this kind of thing…I usually post every single night sometime around 10pm. I forgot last night. It was weird, I sat up in bed at 11pm and exclaimed “I forgot to post!” Jared sleepily murmured “It’s ok.” And we both [...]
Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Page: 446 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Page: 84 I was prepared for Bulgakov’s novel to be “too much” for me. Maybe it’s the rest of the reading I’ve been doing this year, maybe it’s the natural consequence of high expectations, maybe it’s just because [...]
Joseph and His Brothers Page: 1038 I’m enjoying being impatient to find out what’s going to happen in a story I know better than my own biography. Mann plays with this gift he has and his narrative voice teases as he dawdles over details. I think part of the suspense comes from the curiosity to [...]
Song of Solomon Page: 363 Joseph and His Brothers By Thomas Mann Page: 160 I ordered a new batch of books yesterday. It’s been awhile since I’ve ordered any (I had to spend my book money on that speeding ticket. Sad.) and I’m so excited to see them come in. I ordered Sherlock Holmes, more [...]