Impressive. Finnegan's Wake is daunting without a reading guide. I'm not familiar with the Redbook series. YA? Not much changed in my reading list. Slow reader. Dyslexia can be as daunting as Finnegan's Wake. Almost finished "The Frankenstein Murders" (2008 companion sequel to the original classic). It's good, but not extraordinary, sadly. It grounds Mary Shelley's classic in modern psychology, or so I imagine, not actually finished yet. I failed in reading a DFW essay today: "The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein's Mistress" (1990). I suspect I need to research its subject matter if I'm to have any hope in understanding what he is talking about. My state of mind was definitely not up to the task. Periodic depression, of late, but that's neither here nor there. I began a book of short stories by Mavis Gallant the other day: "Paris Stories" (just the introduction by Michael Ondaatje, thus far). She was an extraordinary writer; she ought to be far more famous than her relative obscurity warrants.
I do have a FW reading guide called the Skeleton Key to FW, and I've been dipping back into it. It does help, but the book is almost impossibly difficult. And this is my second time through it. I'll keep an eye out for Mavis Gallant. Thanks
Always a bonus to have a feline companion in the book bunker! Hope Hawk makes future guest appearances.
I hope so, too!
That last reading was. Perfect!
Can you believe it? Yikes.
Just got my own copy... looking forward to reading it! [And I need my own buchbunker... ]
LOL. Great! Which edition of Hesiod did you grab?
@@greatbooksbigideas Paley, of 1861. It's in Greek with English footnotes. I'll be reading the footnotes!
Impressive. Finnegan's Wake is daunting without a reading guide.
I'm not familiar with the Redbook series. YA?
Not much changed in my reading list. Slow reader. Dyslexia can be as daunting as Finnegan's Wake.
Almost finished "The Frankenstein Murders" (2008 companion sequel to the original classic). It's good, but not extraordinary, sadly. It grounds Mary Shelley's classic in modern psychology, or so I imagine, not actually finished yet.
I failed in reading a DFW essay today: "The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein's Mistress" (1990). I suspect I need to research its subject matter if I'm to have any hope in understanding what he is talking about. My state of mind was definitely not up to the task. Periodic depression, of late, but that's neither here nor there.
I began a book of short stories by Mavis Gallant the other day: "Paris Stories" (just the introduction by Michael Ondaatje, thus far). She was an extraordinary writer; she ought to be far more famous than her relative obscurity warrants.
I do have a FW reading guide called the Skeleton Key to FW, and I've been dipping back into it. It does help, but the book is almost impossibly difficult. And this is my second time through it. I'll keep an eye out for Mavis Gallant. Thanks