Good Squad Intro

The "introduction" of the novel (Caitlin, help me out? The official term used when authors quote others for the introduction of their novels...)

"Poets claim that we recapture for a moment that self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years."

"The unknown element in the lives of other people is like that of nature, which each fresh scientific discovery merely reduces but does not abolish."

This is why I gotta get me some Proust in the near future!

Pulitzer

I broke down and bought another book, the Pulitzer Prize winner for literature this year, A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan.

The Golden Notebook is dragging a bit...which brings me to the conclusion that I should always try to read multiple books at once for this reason.

I have basketball streamed on my laptop while downloading a ton of rap and reading my books while there is a thunder storm going on. Life is good!

I've been reading I swear!

Though I wasn't sure about my stance on Diary of a Bad Year, it's safe to say I didn't love it since I realized I completely forgot that I read it until I went to write in this blog, ha!

Slowly but surely, I've been reading folks! I finished the last Hunger Games, Mockingjay. I loved it. Though in the beginning I was unsure if I would (the second, Catching Fire being my favorite), but the ending gave the entire trilogy justice. It's action-packed and commanding. And I'm going to do what my friend who bought the books for me did: I won't go into detail about the series, other than recommend reading it. All of them.

I've started The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Gonna do my best to finish it by the end of the month but don't hold your breathe.

Books on my mind lately: Pulitzer Prize winners, Catch 22, Feminist Mystique, Berlin Stories. Lets see how many of those I actually read this year.

Ok bye!

Diary of a Bad Year

"17. On having thoughts

If I were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism, or anarchist quietistic pessimism, or pessimistic quietistic anarchism: anarchism because experience tells me that what is wrong with politics is power itself; quietism because I have my doubts about the will to set about changing the world, a will infected with the drive to power and pessimism because I am sceptical that, in a fundamental way, things can be changed. "

Amen! I have about 20 pages left in the book, and I still don't know if I'm a fan or not...so I just carry on.

April means read like a motherfucker.

I finished Jane Eyre...and I loved it again. And I decided I can't make a decision on which I loved more, because then it got me thinking that I should reread Villette again and who has time for that?!

And no Jane Eyre challenge as Vermont is not showing the movie. Boo.

So what am I reading now? Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee. The story takes place in three parts that happen simultaneously: the script of the protagonist who is an author, the relationship between the author and his transcriber and then the relationship between the transcriber and her boyfriend. At first I was hesitant because of the first part happens to be very political and right now, I don't want books that make me think that way, but I decided to keep reading. And I can't say I'm regretting it.

I also broke my New Years Resolution and bought a book! More on that later....