Just started Vol. I of Proust's epic novel In Search of Lost Time


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Oooh, I will look into the borrow. Thanks for that tip! I borrow e-books from the Free Library of Philadelphia quite often (you don't need to live in Philly to do this). I'll look into Open Library!

I'm waiting for my first edition copy of Night Shift to show up (any day now!) since I just finished The Shining yesterday and that should be next. I started the uncut/unabridged edition of The Stand this morning in the meantime. (The Stand was my first King novel, read in the early eighties, but not this longer version, nearly 1200 pages of tiny print. It'll be the next book after Night Shift chronologically.)

The Stand is epic, his best work still, IMO, and the uncut version fleshes out a lot of details and adds interesting background scenes that make an already excellent novel even better (and richer).

Glad I could help btw, let us know what you think of Rage. I thought it was an interesting exploration of the darker side of of humanity and the idea that any one of us, given the proper nudge and set of circumstances, is capable of committing acts of unspeakable violence.



I do understand why he (King) had it pulled from circulation though..

I started Rage last night and will return to it today. (Trying to keep the King reading in order of publication.) One of the book scans is pretty clear, and the whole story is only about 130 pages, so reading onscreen won't bother me too much. (Wouldn't want to read The Stand that way, although I'm reading it on my Kindle--a much better screen experience for reading.)

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My copy of Night Shift arrived yesterday, so when I want to sit on the sofa in my office, I'll read that King work. If I don't mind reading on my computer screen, I'll continue with Rage (digital, onscreen reading only). I'm enjoying doing this chronological reading of King's works.

This shouldnt be a surprise to the people who really know me.

I've been watching Irish cinema; thought I might as well read an Irish book. Slight novella, beautifully written - was adapted into one of my favorite movies (The Quiet Girl)

Smart NPR review here... https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/11318...s-look-outward

Right now I’m reading What Are You Reading Right Now on mofo.

Welp, if I'm going all in on the Irish this year, I might as well take the plunge



wish me luck.

That one's a cakewalk compared to


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Started Vol. 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time


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40 pages in on the Joyce and I'm already near to throwing in the towel. Last time I did that was with a William Faulkner. And while I was fine with Lolita and Pale Fire, Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle kicked my tail, and I quit on it too.

As much as I "get" movies" and will muscle through difficult ones, I don't believe I'm at that level with literature. I can do writers like Dostoevsky (I adore his work), so I'm not completely hopeless, but I have this point sometimes, where I go, "Yup, nope - probably a classic, but I can't do it - I don't have the wherewithal."

I just finished a great Irish novel, History of the Rain. I'm totally serious when I say I laughed, I cried, I fell a little bit in love with the woman narrating (both in the story and the voice of the person reading the audiobook). I thought the writing was so good.

But while I was at the library, I picked up another collection from Keegan, so I'm going to switch to it.

I was thinking of doing more Alice Munro, but I'm having a difficult time remembering what I've read from her. I know I've read the 3 stories that made up Almodovar’s Julieta… “Chance”, “Soon” and “Silence” and some others - guess it wouldn't hurt to re-read them, pick up a few collections and see what's familiar and what's new to me.

Just put a hold on it at the library.

I don't think I've read anything from Keegan before. I put her on my list.

My favorite short story writers are Flannery O'Connor and George Saunders. I've also recently been reading some Ted Chiang and he's really brilliant. "Babylon" is probably one of my favorite short stories ever.

I'm like 90% sure we've already waxed rhapsodic to each other about Chiang before, but just in case, I'll second this, as fervently as I am capable of seconding anything. Chiang's short story collections are marvelous, and I'm actually planning on rereading both, which is something I almost never do.

I think it might have been on your recommendation that I checked out one of his collections and I really loved it.

Have you read any George Saunders? Both his short story collections and Lincoln in the Bardo are really excellent. The latter made me cry, embarrassingly, while I was at work setting up my classroom and listening to the audiobook. It was like, quick! Close the blinds and pretend it's just really dusty in here!

To answer in the spirit of the thread, this:

I just started it last night. After the house settles I'll try to read another chapter or two. I liked the first Oregon Files book so hopefully Sacred Stone is good too.