The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh Page: 320 I still enjoy Waugh’s writing and am happy to be working my way through another book of his. My experiences reading short stories this year has convinced me that reading straight through a collection of them is not effective. They tend to blend together and individual [...]
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Page: 319 Finished The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Page: 1313 Finished I love Treasure Island. I’ve read it dozens of times since I first picked it up when I was 12 or so. It is perfect, exciting, wise but not moralistic, and just plain fun. I also thoroughly [...]
The Cairo Trilogy Page: 605 I’ve recently discovered the delightful world of waiter-blogging. Thanks to VSL I was introduced to Waiter Rant and from there discovered others. I’m still in the service industry, though as an owner injustices are less frequent, and I spent years hostessing and waiting tables so the frustrations these bloggers express [...]
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 [...]
Master andMargarita Page: 250 Linda G. Wins! I used a random number generator which gave me the wonderful number 7 so comment 7 won and will be receiving Dracula. That was fun. I hardly got any reading done today partly because I’m so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open and partly because the [...]
Wealth of Nations Page 525 So I was getting ready for work this morning, finishing up my extensive beauty routine of pretending I brushed my hair, applying mascara, and slipping my earrings in, when I discovered it’s been about a year since I plucked my eyebrows. Priorities change… Sometimes I want to blog more about [...]
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Page: 240 The price of corn. The price of wheat. Nominal price. Actual price. Two pounds Tower weight in 1640. One ounce Tower weight in 1580. Shillings. Pennies. Copper. Silver. BLAH BLAH BLAH. Just state the law of supply and demand and get it over with! I guess [...]
Joseph and His Brothers Page: 788 Maybe it’s a side effect of committing to get over feeling sorry for myself, maybe it’s an extra dose of adorable kiddos, maybe it’s just because my fever finally went away but life is good today. Alex is playing in the bookstore, happily and quietly, bringing me books to [...]
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Page: 1184 Finished I’m finished *happy dance*. Unfortunately the novel got better as it ended. I’m sad…I wanted to skim it. OK, I need a primer in Greenbelt etiquette. Of course the ruling principle in all codes of etiquette is to ensure that other people are as comfortable as [...]
Tale of Genji Page: 740 I promise it’s not Genji’s fault that I didn’t get much reading done today. There is nothing like going without to make you realize how much you appreciate something. I think I’ve always been properly grateful to my mother-in-law for watching Alex and Luc on Saturdays. This week both she [...]