07:00 – Start of a new week but not a new book. I got snagged up with something important at the end of last night, so I never did get a chance to finish Tsotsi [forethoughts]. I’ve drowned my sorrows about that this morning by reading a couple more shorts from the Mary-Ann Constantine collection – The Breathing (Planet). The first, Inside was really short but rather good. The second, On the Ground was a bit odd but certainly not unreadable.
09:00 – Got tied into reading a chapter of Catriona Kelly’s Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press). First time I’ve read it. Very impressed – it’s to the point and accessible (as are most of the titles are in the ‘Short Introduction’ series). Sadly I made the mistake of reading it in front of the computer, with it turned on (gasp!), and that distracted my reading massively. That’s the last time I make that mistake again.
13:00 – Cracking book delivered while I was out. Can’t say anything else about it right now, but it’s one I was not only delighted to receive, it was one that also made me wish I had a lot more reading hours in my day. Also had a message waiting from the library to let me know that a copy of Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin (Penguin Classics) was waiting for me to pick up. Wahoo, but heaven knows how I’ll fit it in.
21:00 – Finally getting some time for myself, but not sure how much of it will be reading time. Been a bit of a funny day really, rushing around doing loads, but looking back I’m wondering what I actually did do. Not enough reading that’s for sure. Which reminds me I still need to finish that Tolstoy article on Maupassant. Got to finish other things first though – Tsotsi, loving it to death but I’m uncomfortable that I’m overdue on finishing it. In fact I was thinking back on an earlier scene over dinner. It’s a scene that involves a certain character called Morris, who has a certain disability and the whole lot came flooding back to me, and made me think about how profound the whole episode involving Morris was. That must mean Fugard’s having a real affect on me right?
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those very short introductions are fantastic! i picked up one on the french revolution a while back for a class i was taking and it certainly helped come test time.
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The ‘Short Introductions” are superb aren’t they Brittney? Kind of a thinking man’s (or woman’s) Wikipedia
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