Sep. 8th, 2014 05:04 pm
Unfinished business
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muckefuckTen years ago today, I posted a select list of thirteen titles I'd begun reading and never finished. I went through it again today and realised that in the intervening decade I've whittled it down to...ten. (The three I went back and finished were Genji, Egil's saga, and One hundred years of solitude.) Several of the remaining titles I'd forgot I'd owned, since they're in a box in the library still waiting to be unpacked. I don't want to think how many more unfinished books have piled up in the meantime.
We're on the cusp of transition from summer to fall, so I'm finding it hard to settle on a new long read. I'm starting to feel the pull of East Asian lit again, but they could be just the mooncake talking. So in the meantime I've taken up Woodrell's Tomato red, whose sub-200 page count should please McEwan. I've also got short story books from Danticat, Jones, and an international anthology from Halpern. "Summer is for short stories," the clerk at Uncharted Books in Logan Square told me, and I think she was right.
We're on the cusp of transition from summer to fall, so I'm finding it hard to settle on a new long read. I'm starting to feel the pull of East Asian lit again, but they could be just the mooncake talking. So in the meantime I've taken up Woodrell's Tomato red, whose sub-200 page count should please McEwan. I've also got short story books from Danticat, Jones, and an international anthology from Halpern. "Summer is for short stories," the clerk at Uncharted Books in Logan Square told me, and I think she was right.
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