Wednesday, March 22, 2006
it just occurred to me that i haven't written at all about my reading, even though it's the main activity of importance in my life and always has been. i've often told the story of how, in our family, the big event of childhood was getting your own library card. my mother refused to let me go a few streets away from home to visit other children but i was allowed to take the bus downtown, alone, to go to the library on saturday afternoons. and how, confronted with the enormity of the library and all of its books, i decided to start reading in alphabetical order, starting with fiction which was nearest to the entrance, and eventually read everything in the library. big plans, for a small child.
in any event, i'm currently reading "long life", the memoirs of nigel nicholson. he's th son of harold nicholson and vita sackville-west. they are the subject of, and he is the author of "portrait of a marriage". i read that book in the early seventies, shortly after publication and have been fascinated by the family since. the memoirs are sort of disjointed, almost stream of conciousness but are interesting nonetheless and an easy read.
i just finished bob dylan's "chronicles, part one". another very interesting read, in that i had previously read alot about his early career, most notably a book called "positively fourth street" about the link between him and joan baez. it's interesting to read it from his perspective, it seems so much simpler and so much less of a conspiracy to ride on her coattails to fame.
before that, i read "natural blonde" by liz smith. interesting but annoying. she describes her social life, running around with every prominent dyke of the past 50 years but skirts the issue of her own sexuality. i think she could have, finally, done better.
in any event, i'm currently reading "long life", the memoirs of nigel nicholson. he's th son of harold nicholson and vita sackville-west. they are the subject of, and he is the author of "portrait of a marriage". i read that book in the early seventies, shortly after publication and have been fascinated by the family since. the memoirs are sort of disjointed, almost stream of conciousness but are interesting nonetheless and an easy read.
i just finished bob dylan's "chronicles, part one". another very interesting read, in that i had previously read alot about his early career, most notably a book called "positively fourth street" about the link between him and joan baez. it's interesting to read it from his perspective, it seems so much simpler and so much less of a conspiracy to ride on her coattails to fame.
before that, i read "natural blonde" by liz smith. interesting but annoying. she describes her social life, running around with every prominent dyke of the past 50 years but skirts the issue of her own sexuality. i think she could have, finally, done better.
# posted by rae121452 : 3/22/2006 07:05:00 PM
