Status Updates From Pale Fire

this guy is insane

I'm not sure there's much point in updating page numbers on here just the way reading this book works haha
I think I read like 25-30 pages of it last night, but am technically only 8 pages further in.

This one's gonna be a project, that's for sure. Feels like I'm gonna need an investigation notebook to make sense of it. Gonna have this as a long term book and read some normal ass novels in the meantime.

'...marching nearer in iambic motion.'

this image <3

the commentary is such a drag, oh my days. I know that’s the point, but I think I’m done putting in so much effort – I’ll have to start skimming the more tiresome footnotes. I did not want to have to do this for my first Nabokov novel, especially as this one’s hailed as his magnum opus, but Kinbote is simply too frustrating!! Oh well, I swear I gave it my best shot 😭