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The title story in the Penelope Lively collection I read this week, The Five Thousand and One Nights, is certainly the most playful of the bunch. What happens to Scheherazade and the Sultan after the thousand and one nights? The Sultan is Tamed by narrative. The sting drawn; the fires banked. He had revised [...] Autumn is starting (here in the US, anyway), and kids are heading back to school–does the changing season change your reading habits? Less time? More? Are you just in the mood for different kinds of books than you were over the summer? I suppose I probably spend more time reading in cooler weather because [...] Pacifist Viking has decided to read all of Shakespeare’s plays in the next year. “Hamlet” was first; check out this excellent post on why the play endures, at the Costanza Book Club (a great blog, btw). One reason is language: The plot is familiar, and the emotional impact may be lost, but the language [...] Today’s Question: Have you ever added a quote to the quotation field in common knowledge? What’s a quote you particularly like from a book, one that you know by heart? No to the first question, but there are many I like and know by heart. Most of the ones I mentioned in this post, [...] Daniel Couégnas’ essay, “Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700-1900″ points out research by Maurice Lévy on the titles of gothic novels. “The most frequent model of title falls into two parts linked by or in the eighteenth-century style, followed by a subtitle that indicates the genre.” That last is usually “a [...] Spent a rainy day in yesterday finishing Wieland, which turned out to be a great read. Review to come. Surprised and sorry to hear about David Foster Wallace. This coming Friday the consumption partner and I are going away for nine days—yay!!!—so this week I’ll be attempting to blog and preschedule some content for [...] When I lived in Montreal, an acquaintance of mine had a book of short stories published, Cities of Weather. I don’t believe I read all the stories, and unfortunately I don’t have my own copy of the book, though I should get one, but the ones I did read were good—again, not great, but [...] Is when I vow my fidelity to books. And yet I am just about too sick to read. I woke up on Wednesday with a typical fever/sore throat/congested head thing going on and by evening had to give in and watch TV instead. And yesterday, despite my best intentions, I couldn’t manage more of [...] Today is the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I know that not all of you who read are in the U.S., but still, it’s vital that none of us who are decent people forget the scope of disaster that a few, evil people can [...] Actually, the title of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book is Outliers—but they are the same thing. Hachette has put the prologue of the forthcoming book online. I didn’t read either of Gladwell’s previous books, because I thought they were probably overhyped and didn’t sound terribly interesting anyway. But I am an outlier and I’ve been [...] |
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