gwynnega: (books poisoninjest)
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What are you reading now?
Still reading The Waves. I love Virginia Woolf and usually devour her novels quickly, but I'm having a hard time getting into this one. I guess it's the polyphonic first-person voices that are making it hard for me to settle in.

I'll Stand By You: The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Absolutely loving it, though I suspect I'll be reading it in dribs and drabs for awhile.

What did you just finish reading?
Dodie Bellamy's The Buddhist. Highly recommended. So wide-ranging and wild and thinky. It was interesting how different the reading experience was, reading this as a book, as opposed to reading the blog entries as she posted them. Here's one of the blog entries, for an idea of the feel of Dodie's prose (though I note that in the book, she edited out the second half of the post).

What will you read next?
Possibly American Isis, the new Sylvia Plath biography I just got for the Kindle.

Date: 2013-02-21 06:03 am (UTC)
kore: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kore
I soo need to get that Buddhist book.....I'll be interested to see what you think of Isis -- my take was it was sort of interesting, but really hampered by almost no quotes from Plath's work.

Date: 2013-02-21 06:18 am (UTC)
kore: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kore
Yeah, it definitely wasn't just a rehash of the Butscher, which Mad Girl's Love Song TOTALLY was. ugh.

Date: 2013-02-20 11:48 pm (UTC)
usedtobeljs: (Anya we persevere knowing)
From: [personal profile] usedtobeljs
I always find collections of letters to be the kind of books to be dipped into, rather than read at a stretch....

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