Open to words, forever–
It took me a little longer than I had expected to finish Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, mostly because I needed to slow down my reading to really experience the full impact of Nabokov’s language. Reading this book is like bathing in words. Nabokov writes in such a richly detailed way (how
But it’s just a start. I’m pretty sure I’m going to swap out some of these books, because once again, I have too many other books that have been staring at me from the bookshelf for months or years and are telling me to read them immediately, if not sooner. One project I “bookmarked” for
Another side benefit of making the endless drive from Rochester, NY to Princeton, NJ, made even longer these days by the beginning of road construction/ traffic tie-up season, is being able to go to the Princeton University Art Museum. It’s a wonderful jewel-box of a collection, with new exhibitions opening regularly in addition to a
I finally got a chance to see the movie Paterson, but I had to travel 326 miles to a movie theater in Princeton, New Jersey (not too far from Paterson, New Jersey) just to get a chance to see it before it disappears into video release. Granted, I was going to Princeton for the
We are at the end of our ten week reading challenge, and I am nowhere near finishing. The books I didn’t get to are still piled up on my table. The poems I haven’t read are set aside for later. The essay collections I started are still half-finished, and all the New Yorker, Boston Review,
This just showed up in my inbox, perhaps a little late, but good advice for the next challenge? Here’s the text by Elle Kaplan, from Medium. “Reading is a huge key to success and wealth, but how can you actually benefit from this habit as a busy adult? I’ve said it many times: reading books
Well, the excuse is that I was in Buffalo last night, staying over in my husband’s apartment–he works there during the week and then comes back to Rochester on the weekends–and he’s a bit of a cheapskate, so he never got wifi for the apartment. He figured that he’d just get all his internet access
It’s been another fast-flying week, already (thankfully) the end of March and I hope, the end of snow. Today, the sun came out for the first time in over a week, and it took me a while to figure out what made the morning seem so different. Was it maybe that the miserable grayness has
I spent quite a few hours reading in those colorful Adirondack chairs last Friday, although I was very far away from the Adirondacks, having landed in Myrtle Beach, S.C. well before members of my New York City family arrived on their (much shorter!) flight from La Guardia. We were all rendezvousing for a long weekend
I’ve had a week of small things, in direct contrast to the big deal weather we’ve been having here in Rochester, first a violent wind storm that toppled hundreds of trees (thankfully none of ours), and today, 26 inches of show with blizzard-like white-outs and temperatures hovering around 16 degrees. Everything has shut down, including
Seasonal Reading 