the deeds were done and done again as my life is done…
I’ve been keeping a list on my arm of things to order, and right now it says:
- Watermelon
- Sugar cereal
Which makes me think of this:
the reading life
I think that Annie Dillard is the exact literary opposite of David Foster Wallace. Short deliberate sentences, short chapters. Lots of divisions, of ideas and thoughts. Reading Annie Dillard, I’m finding it hard to put the book down, desiring to read one more paragraph or section or oh look the next chapter is only 6 pages. I think that if The Writing Life was a thousand pages and Infinite Jest was merely 150, The Writing Life would still be shorter.
Filed under books | Comments (3)springtime resolution
Dear World,
Let it be known that I will finish reading Infinite Jest by the end of the summer.
Sincerely,
Dory
ps. I have a large box of book that I don’t feel like I need to take to New York with me. If you want anything, from contemporary fiction to gradschool books about Canadian identity to kids books with nice pictures that will be fun to collage, let me know and you can come help yourself!
Filed under books | Comment (1)The books on our coffee table
