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I'm reading this because someone I know said it reminded them of the stuff I write, but that it felt a little bit more forced. I can see where they're coming from. It's 'try-hard'- which I guess you could level at my stuff, if you took a dislike to what I do. But I'd say I'm hopefully a little more subtle.

I have wanted to read this for a while as I love some of his short stories. Emily the monkey is "...an African in Europe, a female in a man's world... and above all an old-fashioned creature in a modern world..." Written in 1930 the opening pages use racial terminology which a modern reader should find offensive. However I'm hoping the basic humanity evident in Collier's short pieces may over-turn that by book's end

Finnegans Wake is in another city due to reasons so convoluted I'd need Joyce's prose to capture it... anyway I'll be back to finish that off soon-ish. In the meantime Willa Cather trundles on with some lovely games with light and all the somewhat uncomfortable socio-political opinions you'd expect...

Left my copy of Finnegan's Wake behind when I had to rush off somewhere. I keep having to stop myself looking for extra meaning that isn't there whilst I'm filling in with this light little number, in the meantime.

More than halfway, should be an easy slide downhill from now on... ho bloody ho...

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...

Twas brillig and the slithy toves...

From out of the mists rise moments of clarity, pleasure even... only to be swallowed once more. I have started so I'll finish, but how much I will retain, wish to recommend?