tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5411588518815206069..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: What I would be doing if I were not doing what I'm doingAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-40269478886454878432009-11-24T22:55:30.585-06:002009-11-24T22:55:30.585-06:00These read-a-longs and challenges are just why I c...These read-a-longs and challenges are just why I cannot focus on any one period of literature. There is so much that I have not read and I love the groups that help me. <br /><br />I'm actually quite intimidated by Woolf, so looking forward to giving it a try!Rebecca Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06062252252301802298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-4528992603933305112009-11-23T09:44:22.390-06:002009-11-23T09:44:22.390-06:00Quixote Furioso = genius, Amateur Reader! Please ...<em>Quixote Furioso</em> = genius, Amateur Reader! Please have an extra slice of pie on Thanksgiving for that one, my friend!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-7426465322086858212009-11-22T18:33:10.766-06:002009-11-22T18:33:10.766-06:00Nice comments, thanks.
Maybe I should point out t...Nice comments, thanks.<br /><br />Maybe I should point out that in Calvino's categories, all of the early modern authors I mentioned are more like Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time To Reread, while the Modernist writers include more Books You've Been Planning To Read For Ages. Don't wait for that second life for Woolf or Calderon de la Barca or John Webster!<br /><br />Maybe I should also say that Virginia Woolf the critic is actually a close friend, and one of the inspirations for what I try to do at Wuthering Expectations.<br /><br />Nicole, uh, nothing but Melville and/or Nabokov - you could do worse. As Richard says, I rarely feel limited by periodization. The field is still so varied. Two keys to how this works: 1. there are languages other than English and 2. there are books other than novels.<br /><br />Julia - a Montaigne readalong is a great idea. I am <i>not</i> organizing it. That's the job of the <i>Hamlet Quixote</i> blog, which, as Richard says, and as I've argued before, does not exist but should. <i>Quixote Furioso</i>, maybe?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-12561758427407888302009-11-22T12:23:26.271-06:002009-11-22T12:23:26.271-06:00I'm too short of attention to devote myself to...I'm too short of attention to devote myself to your, ahem, "limited" temporal focus in such a way myself, but I'd <em>love</em> to see somebody play the 12th, 13th or 14th century blogging foil to your 19th century guru antics here (I'm a big fan of the intersection of romance languages and medieval manuscript culture, although I don't blog about this crossroads often myself). Love what you do and most of what you say you'd be doing if you weren't doing this, though...and the Roberts (my first Musil and more Walser) are definitely on my agenda for 2010 if I don't get otherwise distracted before then. Until then, thanks for not being just another blog lemming!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-80278522293745263842009-11-21T16:50:15.445-06:002009-11-21T16:50:15.445-06:00I feel plagued by all the things I could be readin...I feel plagued by all the things I could be reading if I weren't reading what I'm reading. But it's a blessing, really -- imagine the opposite.Rebecca H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10825532162727473112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-65432730563856667402009-11-21T15:28:35.786-06:002009-11-21T15:28:35.786-06:00Perhaps I have the converse problem, of desperatel...Perhaps I have the converse problem, of desperately wanting to limit myself but not. Case in point: the other night I read "The Piazza," then fell into a Melvillean vortex (three days and counting), wherein I decided that clearly, I could read Melville and only Melville (and about Melville) for the rest of my life. Sadly, just a week ago I was thinking the same thing about Nabokov.<br /><br />I do the same thing with music. In fact, I'm doing it right now. Glenn Gould and only Glenn Gould, 4eva.nicolehttp://www.bibliographing.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27789885372447305382009-11-20T19:45:17.118-06:002009-11-20T19:45:17.118-06:00I agree with Jenny. What an interesting post. When...I agree with Jenny. What an interesting post. When you do get back to Hawthorne (The Marble Faun, is that the name of the novel I haven't read?) and Melville (I've only read Moby Dick) and Eliot (I think Silas Marner is next) and who else did you say? And Montaigne--Montaigne is waiting on my shelf for a boost from a fellow reader; give a little warning and maybe I'll read along. <br /><br />Thanks for the heads up on the group reading of Virginia Woolf. I was already planning to pick her up again this winter. Except in a real-space book club, I've never read along with a group before. Interesting, the idea of Woolf as your enemy. I'll have to think about that.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305348683809503209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79427625180518581082009-11-20T17:30:19.433-06:002009-11-20T17:30:19.433-06:00Woolf for me is...maybe more than a friend. We ma...Woolf for me is...maybe <em>more</em> than a friend. We maybe have a little thing going on the side. :-) <br /><br />Seriously, though, if I had to choose, I would probably focus on Modernism, of all the literary movements available. But I'm glad my current reading project takes more of a generalist approach, even if a specialization is also theoretically appealing.Emilyhttp://www.eveningallafternoon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-77650389400807365592009-11-20T15:55:46.012-06:002009-11-20T15:55:46.012-06:00Sigh. This is the kind of post that makes me want ...Sigh. This is the kind of post that makes me want to have a whole second reading life. Or, as Calvino puts it, these are the Books That If I Had More Than One Life I Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately My Days Are Numbered.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251983804060081813noreply@blogger.com