meanmamma adores her spouse and offspring, barak obama, old roses, sweet potato latkes, trader joes coastal fume blanc, her book club, paris in any season, facebook word games, and is so very proud of her french scholar, her fulbright scholar, and her midway college student.....
meanmamma adores her spouse and offspring, barak obama, old roses, sweet potato latkes, trader joes coastal fume blanc, her book club, paris in any season, facebook word games, and is so very proud of her french scholar, her fulbright scholar, and her midway college student.....
Friday, September 08, 2006
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.......
ok, so there were 6 chapters...all labeled history....and they divided up the 476 pages so obliquely that i barely noticed them......i finished the book this afternoon....and was both startled by the climax, and soothed by the denuement.....as it should be with great fiction......
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