One reason it’s a bit quiet over here…
… Is the fact that I am furiously (mostly) typing away on my new blog project: Me and Shakespeare. Read along with me.
Tag: reading
Books: not necessarily difficult.
Image by cobra libre via Flickr Norm at the Library has a hopeful note up today. It’s possible to like books with plots in them, and not have to be publicly ashamed at that fact. Well, folks, it looks like the long literary nightmare is finally over. via “…they have trained us… to associate a … Continue reading Books: not necessarily difficult.
Finishing Eschaton
Image by qousqous via Flickr I am still, as stated earlier, reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I have decided that it’s not a novel that I am continuing to read because I like it, though I do. I’ve given up on a lot of likeable novels. There is also the allure of actually … Continue reading Finishing Eschaton
Infinite Jest: How a book should work
Image by the queen of subtle via Flickr Ideally, in even a very large and sprawling novel, which David Foster Wallace‘s Infinite Jest certainly is, all the parts of the book are necessary to the whole. The sum of the whole is greater than the accumulation of its parts, etc. This is emphasized in the … Continue reading Infinite Jest: How a book should work
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