Nico Lee's Blog - Posts Tagged "finnegans-wake-joyce"

"What is Goodreads... what is a good read? What is a book. I used to read. I used to read books. I used to read fiction, but now, now I translate from the Joyce into English. Curse you Stanley Unwin's dad! I will not be defeated... Why did I do this, armed only with a state education where the Classics were not on offer, where a knolwedge of the Bible or Irish politics was something I didn't possess, I wandered in..." and that is why, as the season's wax and wane, like the fall and rise of a poorly mixed cake, I am finding it hard to find time to read stuff on goodreads...