Themes & Projects

Mysteries, December 2008–January 2009

Maritime literature, January–March 2009

Melville read-through, part I, TypeeWhite-Jacket, December 2009–January 2010

Whirlwind tour of Russian literature, February–May 2010

Epistolary literature, July 2009–June 2010

Melville read-through, part II, Moby-DickBilly Budd, July–September 2010

The Unstructured Clarel Readalong, August–September 2010

The Art of the Novella Challenge, August 2011

The bibliographing Reading Challenge, January 2011–present



Authors

Reading Pamela, or perseverance unrewarded

It took me, shamefully, almost a month to read Pamela. Where to begin? How about with the fact that it made me more angry than just about any novel I can remember reading.

This tortures me, actually, because it makes me feel unfair. Who am I to judge the events of Pamela anachronistically? But [...]

Sunday Salon

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 [...]