I realize that before, I made a great effort to discuss all that I was reading, and to weigh in at least somewhat critically about it. We'll see if I can keep that up. There's so much to try and catch up that I've read in the last year...more McCarthy, Bowles, Borges, Marquez, Bolano, Lowry, Nabakov...
I'm going to have to look over my shelves tonight just to come up with a list of the books that I've gone through in what's been a short, yet at times excruciatingly long year. Right now it is yet again a combination of books I'm wading through: The Tree of Man by Patrick White, The Sunset Limited by McCarthy, and a re-reading of The Control of Nature by John McPhee. The last seemed rather pertinent, give the vast likelihood that the exact area that he wrote about on the late 1980's (the areas of Altadena, sierra Madre, and Glendale) are staring down a loaded barrel of landslides this winter following the fires of the last 2 weeks. White is reading slowly, if nothing more that for his style; almost somewhere between the humanness of Steinbeck and the stoicism of McCarthy. Maybe I'll get into Bowles tomorrow.
I'm going to have to look over my shelves tonight just to come up with a list of the books that I've gone through in what's been a short, yet at times excruciatingly long year. Right now it is yet again a combination of books I'm wading through: The Tree of Man by Patrick White, The Sunset Limited by McCarthy, and a re-reading of The Control of Nature by John McPhee. The last seemed rather pertinent, give the vast likelihood that the exact area that he wrote about on the late 1980's (the areas of Altadena, sierra Madre, and Glendale) are staring down a loaded barrel of landslides this winter following the fires of the last 2 weeks. White is reading slowly, if nothing more that for his style; almost somewhere between the humanness of Steinbeck and the stoicism of McCarthy. Maybe I'll get into Bowles tomorrow.
Anyway, I'm going to try and force myself into making this a habit (again). I need to hone my writing...which I suppose is the whole point here, isn't it?
2 comments:
Interested in what you're going to be reading and writing about. Talking to you at Roscoe's that one night and reading your latest entry reminded me of all the books I've wanted to go back and read, especially Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, since I remember almost nothing of that book save for nihilism and my enjoyment.
I share many of the same sentiments as you do, although you express it much more eloquently than I do. Your intellect is somewhat intimidating, but your blog is really interesting nonetheless.
See you on the trails. :)
hiya grace! thanks for the interest...
As long as i'm not just shouting into the void here, i'll probably be able to keep myself much more disciplined about keeping up with it.
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