waking slowwaking to sleep. and waking slow.The End of the Affair- February 20, 2006 I don't really know what made me pick up Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's better in the first half than the second; it gets bogged down a little bit by the religion component in the second half. That said, the characters are imperfect and dynamic, and there's something kind of cathartic about reading about characters who just handle things poorly and emotionally....http://www.wakingslow.com/archives/000276.html Autobiography of a Face- February 7, 2006 After the experience of reading Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett, I thought I'd better go back and read Lucy Grealy's book. It was...okay. So much of it was about her being sick as a kid, which, while tragic, wasn't particularly interesting, really. I feel terrible saying that, but it's true. She got a lot more interesting later in life when we meet her in Patchett's book. Autobiography of a Face did get me thinking about how differently people who spent a lot of time in a hospital as a child...http://www.wakingslow.com/archives/000275.html The Group- February 3, 2006 I was drawn to Mary McCarthy's The Group for two somewhat silly reasons. The first is that Mary McCarthy and I have the same birthdate, and the second is that she lived in the building I live in now. That said, I found The Group completely delightful. It's a book about eight friends from Vassar College and the five years between their college graduation and five year reunion. As a graduate of a Seven Sister college, and someone who is in that exact zone of time (my five year reunion is in May),.http://www.wakingslow.com/archives/000274.html |