the sea, the sea......

ok, so.......I am enjoying the latest of my goodwill bookclub series ...the sea, the sea by iris murdoch......the plot thickened in the pages i read last evening.....somewhere around 60-75.......as previously noted, murdoch writes this novel as a sort of blog, with shortish installments than build upon the last entry, rather than in numbered or named chapters.....and the pace that this style creates suits me perfectly.....and i am in awe of how skillfully she set the stage for the mayhem she sprung upon our self-satisfied and newly retired playwright/actor/director.......i am not quite sure that she didn't mean for these pages to be seen as comdey....i should say dramedy.........because i was seriously diverted, as jane austen would say......i am home for the rest of the day.....and i might just allow myself a bit of time on the back deck with this luscious book before i get down to any meaningful housework......though even our hero charlie has done some rudimentary cleaning.......maybe he will be inspiring of more of the same in pages 75-100.......