The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
The Brothers Karamazov Page: 776 Finished Finally done with Dostoevsky. While I think he’s a worthwhile read, because he writes so richly of the depravity of man’s heart, I don’t think he should be lightly undertaken. Karamazov is long, wordy and complex. Much philosophizing goes into the slightest incidents and the omniscient narrator adds so [...]
The Brothers Karamazov Page: 115 It’s been a long day. No particular reason why, just a combination of difficult stuff. Alex is still teething and he’s got a runny nose but no other cold symptoms. I had an amazingly clueless customer today. She wanted to exchange a book that she had bought a few days [...]
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Page: 396 Finished I hadn’t read this book for a very long time and was pleasantly refreshed by it today. I also realized for the first time that I believe Anne is the best book to movie adaptation ever. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen the [...]
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Page: 100 The Everyman Book of Poetry for Children Page: 205 This time I decided to read my book-club-book more than the day before we meet. I like Evelyn Waugh. This is a pleasant book so far and full of interesting themes. I can’t say anymore about it than that…gotta [...]
No reading. No post. I’ve already worked 15 hours and no end in sight…might be done in about 2-3 hours. Feel sorry for me. G’night.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Page: 235 I started to read this novel ten years ago after reading Baroness Orczy’s Scarlett Pimpernel and becoming temporarily infatuated with all things French Revolution. I didn’t get into it and now I know why. I think the book is good but the archaic sentence structure [...]
Catch 22 Page: 218 So we had a gorgeous banner printed out to announce to all commuters “Anniversary Celebration – Free Drinks All Day Saturday” but with the spring weather and the wind tunnel that is Chinden Blvd…it’s in the closet and not hanging from the bottom of our sign. So instead I’m enlisting the [...]
The General in His Labyrinth By Gabriel Garcia Marquez Page: 248 Finished I know…its not Genji but I needed something a bit easier to read at 6:30 this morning so I actually started this yesterday. Marquez is a talented writer and both The General and Love in the Time of Cholera are well-written and engaging [...]
Ulysses Page: 845 Work. More Work. And even more work. It just keeps piling up. I’m buried in books. And not in the good sense of sitting in the middle of a pile of books and reading (which I’m also doing) but in the bad sense of constantly having more books to process than I [...]
Northanger Abbey Page: 241 Finished Tale of Genji Page: 163 So a customer came in today and asked me “Do you know Herman Hesse?” and I said “Not personally.” I have two main types of literate customers. Those who assume I have read and remembered every single book ever written and treat me like an [...]