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chasing tails
18 Oct 06
This blog is on the verge of being stricken by smallpox, or some such disease that kills infants before they can even walk. Fact is, I haven’t had a lot of time for reading lately; more importantly, I haven’t been reading anything particularly inspiring. I sometimes drift into reading too much non-fiction, but I haven’t had great luck with fiction lately either. I picked up D.M. Thomas’s White Hotel a few days ago, and am pretty unimpressed out of the gate. It all seems rather implausible, and the symbolism heavy handed.
I’m tempted just to stop reading it only about a fifth of the way in, and have actually already picked up something else: Fall On Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Like White Hotel, Fall On Your Knees is something I’ve been meaning to pick up for quite some time. The early going is much more promising, but I have to say I may not be able to finish it if it means I’ll have that godawful xmas carol in my head for the next month.
Posted by pzed on October 18, 2006 at 5.02pm
Categories: metawords, scripture
Comments on "chasing tails"
Better than having the Harry Chapin song in your head in which the main character in the story sings that xmas carol in the background throughout. I get that one in my head every time we drive past a certain spot on the highway during our drives between where I am and where you are (“mr martin tanner, baritone, of dayton ohio, made his town hall debut last night, he came well prepared but unfortunately his presentation was not up to contemporary professional standards. . . “)
Posted by jodi on October 19, 2006 at 11.55pm :: link
And. Please finish it by xmas if you can. So that we can talk about it, and so that over the break we can read The Way the Crow Flies together.
Posted by jodi on October 19, 2006 at 11.57pm :: link
