So I started House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. Got 100ish pages into it but I decided that I should read my library books and take my own books with me to Alaska. So I put it aside, even though it was a decent book. More of the whole early 20th century class issues. I like it though, the protagonist is a lot better than Sister Carrie. So instead I am reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler which is the sequel to Parable of the Sower which I read for Lit earlier in the semester. It is good, although I can't really say why. It's really critical of Christianity and organized religion and all these bad things keep happening and it's basically just really depressing. And because it's Memorial Day weekend I do not have to work so I have been doing a lot of reading which is nice.
Before starting Talents though I read the first chapter of Huck Finn and also fifty pages of Saturday by Ian McEwan. Huck Finn didn't thrill me (sorry Prof. Rohman), but McEwan is an amazing author. I absolutely love his prose.
I really need to decide which books to take on my Alaskan cruise which I am leaving for in less than a week!! Which books, but also how many. Does four sound like a good number? I'll be gone 12 days I think. I guess it depends on what books they are though. Saturday for sure, hum hum.
That is all for now, I just wanted to update because boy and I are sitting here intrawebbing it up.
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The chronicle of one girl's attempt to read every classic she hasn't read already... third time is a charm.
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No, that was Jane Tompkins, who is fucking amazing (you are talking about the essay "Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History" right?). Jane Hamilton is all right. I will write about her tonight.
I am reading The Historian right now and you are going to read it too and love it. I LOVE it so far. Did you ever read Shadow of the Wind? It is creepy as hell just like that - like I was on the plane reading it and someone touched my shoulder behind me and I almost jumped out of my skin. SO SCARY. Also, as you will soon see in the entry I am planning to write about my literary guilty pleasures, I have a soft spot for well-written historical-fiction-based vampire books. I KNOW I KNOW IT IS PATHETIC BUT I JUST THINK THEY ARE SO INTERESTING AND CREEPY. PLUS THIS ONE IS UNCOMMONLY WELL DONE.
that was a long comment my apologies.
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