flight paths discussion

has spring begun to affect your reading, or are you still in hibernation mode?

It being still too cold to read outside, I guess I am still in hibernation mode.
I found Surprised by Joy and had to reread last chapter, have one more chapter to go but dont feel I have quite grasped his logic.

I loved Sarah Canary, what a surprise delight.

Another huge surprise, notice that Salmon Fishing in the Yemen has been made in to a movie!

And I started yesterday and well into
Mr. Schnitzel

Your post made me wonder if the unusual warmth in the city is playing any part in my uncomfortable inability to concentrate on reading.

Of course, I'm probably just frantically searching for reasons.

What is Salmon Fishing In The Yemen about or like (since "about" is not always the apposite point)? I'm very curious. Perhaps I'll look it up but I'd be interested in an elaboration of what you find "wonderful" about it.

And what is Mr. Schnitzel? I love the name.

(and, btw, where do you find these interesting titles?)

I guess my review of SFitY was a little too succinct.

What endears me to a book is when, despite obvious differences, I resonate with the characters on some deep essential level. I resonate to integrity especially. And the warmth the author imbues.

SFitY was also appealing for the way it managed to tackle all the important issues but sideways, never didactically. it is such a spoof!

Sarah Canary a similar approach, do recommend it too.
I am upset my review is in limbo and looks like its not going to post:=(

Mr S is a bit more challanging with its experimental footnotes overtaking the story. Its a bit cluttered but I am digging it.

I find my books synchronistically at work in the bookstore usually!

It seems that none of my fellow travellers have been bothering to update in this space.
This puts me in a peculiar position, remembering that I was the one who voted aginst the idea of a what are you reading thread at all! My position was that we already have this info on our home page,but I was persuaded that it would be good to be able to have the info gathered under such a banner for purposes of convenience and discussion.
Sometimes it really works this way, and I have been dutifully updating and occassionally others have too.Yay Ellie! But maybe it is time to re=evaluate the relevance of this whole thread.

On the one hand, it's a good way to stay in touch
but on the other hand if nobody's that keen, why bother?

I need to add that I have going through some kind of book crises in that I seem to have hit some kind of wall in trying to force myself to read something I had an immediate aversion to. I am going to find another thread to take this up.

Currently lost in space perhaps, more likely in Sweden, have returned to the Wallander series.

Next in line might be one of Mantel,Beaton(Hamish Macbeth, Rankin (Rebus) but then again I might go raiding the library.

Declaring a state of confusion now the snow has melted.

I bet Cambridge has a few libraries....
and used bookshops

today it actually looks like spring here.

I am enjoying the screwtape letters
but fed up with the novel I chose to read to blot out McCarthy.

Ordered Cryptum by Greg Bear from the Library. Too much time spent away from my usual genre's.
Then my wife's uncle gave me 4 crime novels.
If I am given a book I have to read it, a sort of compulsion, like eating all your meal if you have paid for it.

The Hunger Games, The Waste Land by TS Eliot, some essays by Chinua Achebe, Rashomon and Other Tales by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and I'm just peeping and dipping my toes into The Recognitions by William Gaddis, not actually "reading" it, you understand. :)

LovedRashomon (book and movie) and In the grove. The story presented the setting almost as vividly as the film-I can see why the director chose it.

Just started (again) The Recognitions-I always love the beginning (which is starting to feel very familiar) but somewhere along the line lose my stamina, if not my interest.

Ellie wrote: "Just started (again) The Recognitions-I always love the beginning (which is starting to feel very familiar) but somewhere along the line lose my stamina, if not my interest. "

LOL You sound just like me... I get bored if it drags on too long. Which is why I prefer shorter fiction unless it's a page-turner like Gone With the Wind.

Ack.. my required reading of George Eliot's Middlemarch comes to mind..- I had to finish that so I ended up skimming the last parts with lightning speed.

Reading The Sound and the Fury. I forgot how complex the Quentin section is. Reminds me of Ulysses...

I've read S&F twice-I feel drunk (and not in the best way) when I read a lot of Faulkner.

I don't think I can take Benjy a third time. And he's the best of the lot!

Ellie wrote: "I've read S&F twice-I feel drunk (and not in the best way) when I read a lot of Faulkner.

I don't think I can take Benjy a third time. And he's the best of the lot!"

S&F three times is probably above and beyond. We're going to read Absalom, Absalom! late summer or so...

Have you read Bird brians celebrity deathmatch review featuring S&F vs Grapes of Wrath. It will give you a refreshing break.

I read the recognitions so long ago I have only a vague memory of being totally immersed, neglecting everyone while this book took over for a good 10 days. I do want to read it again but dammit, it was a library book so I do not own a copy.