In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…
I am finished reading:
The Master by Colm Tóibín- And so it ends with one big happy family at Lamb House, we get to see Henry James play uncle to his niece and the sibling rivalry between William and Henry begins to peek out.
Oh, and we get William and Alice (the SIL and not the sister) talking about the medium that they consulted to Henry...an interesting way to conclude a wonderful, well-written novel.
“Harry, I find I have read innumerable sentences you now write twice over to see what they could possibly mean. That is the long and short of it. In this crowded and hurried age you will remain unread and neglected as long as you continue to indulge this style and these subjects.”
“I shall,” Henry replied,” as I work in the future then, strive to gratify you, but perhaps I should add that I might be even more humiliated if you should like what I do and thereby merge it in your affection with things for which I have heard you express admiration. Things which I would sooner descend to a dishonored grave than have written.”
I am reading:
2666 by Roberto Bolano- Finding my way back into the plot and characters in this book, which is still in the middle of no where, it seems (not that it’s a bad thing). I do think the book suffers a little from being a continuous narrative as opposed to having a few sharp divisions.
Not believing your ears though, thought Espinoza, is a form of exaggeration. You see something beautiful and you can’t believe your eyes. Someone Tellys you about...the natural beauty of Iceland...people waiting in thermal springs, among geysers...in fact you’ve seen in it pictures but you still say that you can’t believe it...Although obviously you believe it...Exaggeration is a form of polite admiration...You set it up so the person you’re talking to can say: it’s true...And then you say: incredible. First you can’r believe it and then you think it’s incredible.
Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer (The Journals of Thomas Merton Book 2) by Thomas Merton
Autospy by Patricia Cornwell
