Monday, June 27, 2005
Books
Ah, it's so nice to be able to read books for fun without having 10 weeks of back-reading for law nagging at my conscience. I just devoured "Métaphysique des tubes" ("The character of rain") by Amélie Nothomb, whose first book "Hygiène de l'assassin" was the first French book I literally could not put down. Likewise with this one. I read it while eating pizza, which involved some cutlery gymnastics. Seriously, go find her books. They're easy to read, corrosively funny, and have these bizarre premises which somehow work - "Métaphysique", for example, is the author's autobiography up to age three. Yes, up to, not from.I'm also reading Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park". After "Pride and Prejudice", it's a bit of a disappointment. Fanny Price is such a wet dishcloth compared to the marvelous Elizabeth Bennet! To be fair, I've only read a third of the book, but so far basically she's always either dying of gratitude or tired. Grow a backbone, girl! And the pace is much slower than P&P as well. God, the passage about "improvements".
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