This fun, funny, and darkly interesting novel is another masterpiece in the seemingly endless line of masterpieces from Nabokov. This book has made me decide that I will no longer listen to any Nabokov books, and will read them all instead, because I am endlessly wanting to highlight things. This story is about a woman's …
The Great Gatsby. Still not sure if I read it.
Well, now I've finished it, but I still feel like I haven't. I had a terrible time trying to pay attention to this one, but I think that was mostly the fault of the narrator. Jake Gyllenhaal (in a trend of having famous actors read classics) gives a dull, monotone reading that would put you …
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What to ask…
I'm writing a list of questions to ask people who read my novella... and it is making me think a bit more about what I was actually trying to achieve by writing the thing... Maybe I should have thought about this before writing it, but that's just not how I do things!
The Observer second draft is finished!
I have finished a first pass through of my novella, and fixed all the problems I had highlighted! Now to read it again and find a whole new slew of them (I've already found a few, sigh.) I know it will never be 'done.' It will only ever be 'good enough.' But it is still …
Oh my God the dictionary!
I started reading it... and am wondering why I never did this before. It's like walking through a treasure-filled cavern and snatching up any glinting piece that pulls my eye. So many words! I wish I had a randomized version of the dictionary so that all my new words wouldn't start with A, but here …
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