I’m having a lovely lazy weekend after deciding to just go where the reading spirit took me. So instead of my little project I decided to read something certain to please and went with A Farewell to Arms, which was, to use its own terms, really fine and grand.
I did do a little “real” reading too, starting the Lettres persanes on Friday. I’ve only read a few pages, the first three letters, but Montesquieu only took two to get into the exoticism and start writing about eunuchs and harems. The third letter is from a concubine to what seems to be (one of) the main character(s) and I quite like her.
I read A Farewell To Arms last year and really enjoyed it. I’ve recently picked up The Sun Also Rises but I’m about 70 pages into it and I’m kind of stuck. Happy reading!
I suppose I’m one of few who doesn’t find “A Farewell to Arms” all that impressive… It’s not even that I disliked it, I just felt so apathetic leaving it, especially compared to how I left “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, which I thought was absolutely brilliant. I mean, I liked a lot of parts to the book but on the whole… I’m not sure.
I’d hoped to get some books in the mail Saturday. I didn’t.
I could have gone by the library and picked up two books on hold for me. I didn’t.
I don’t have anything that is really calling to me right now. What to do?
Michelle: Yeah, I am not a very big fan of The Sun Also Rises at all. I don’t really know why, it just didn’t do it for me years ago when I read it.
Biblibio: Yeah…I think I would definitely agree that For Whom the Bell Tolls is better as a whole. And I liked it more. But this was still really solid for me and hit the spot this weekend.
debnance: The perpetual question! I was sitting around Friday night with no plans and STACKS of books and just felt blah until I settled on the Hemingway. Now I’m sort of blah again. And I’m sure my brain will only be functioning less once the workweek starts up. Good luck to you!