What a year! Took up a challenge and here I am, at the end of its first year. Another lesson to be taken, that things often seem intimidating but you'll never know your capacity for endurance and overcoming if you don't disregard the overwhelming and just decide to do.
Also, it's not December 31 so I've little reason for being overly sentimental about the year that has passed. I have yet to celebrate (which is not actually synonymous for partying in my case) my birthday for the year 2012. That will happen soon though, as soon as November third.
Yesterday I borrowed a bunch of sombre books from the library. I've never read Wuthering Heights, so that'll be crossed off of my to-read list. I also took out biographies on Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar written by Plath herself. Spent a great deal over the weekend dissecting the literature of Toni Morrison and Shakespeare - literature has so much depth, I wish more people would take the time to engage with it at a level deeper than mere surface reading. I specifically looked at issues of gender and black identity. Fun. I'll blog more extensively upon these in the very near-near future.
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Happy birthday for the 3rd, and well done for the year :) Wuthering Heights is good - the angst is incredibly hard to read, but the writing is brilliant. I haven't read The Bell Jar yet, would be interested in hearing your thoughts on it once you're done.
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ReplyDeleteBelated happy birthday, Lucinda! Did you do anything good?
ReplyDeleteYour reading plans sound great. Look forward to reading your blog posts on those books! I agree about reading in more depth. I'm often dissatisfied with my own reading and the book reviews I post online. I tend to want to move on and read the next book, rather than sitting with the one I have and spending more time going over it and thinking about it. A good book always provides so much depth, and so often I barely get beneath the surface. Too impatient!
It was great, thank you Andrew. My beloveds had arranged a "surprise" do for me (I cannot be surprised; to their dismay. Haha!)
DeleteI'm sitting with a stack of books to do 'read reflections' for and little initiative so, I'm going to head to your site to: 1) get some inspiration via your own book reviews and 2) disprove your dissatisfaction about them.
I can read one book for months. Besides building context, my love for words and phrasing has me pondering over lines and noting them down and all that. Which can be annoying too as there are just sooo many books to read and sooo little time.
Glad you enjoyed it Lucinda! Aw, you could at least have pretended to be surprised though :-)
DeleteThanks for visiting and I'm honoured that my reviews would give you inspiration. As it happens I just got inspired by your comment about reading one book for months. I've never done that, but I want to try it now.
Well, this is quite funny. 'Reading one book for months' is sort of an exaggeration; I blame it on Holden Caulfield, he must have rubbed off on me. The only book this year that I've read spanning over some months was Anna Karenina. "Weeks" would be a more appropriate term.
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