Don't some days feel longer than others? I don't mean individual days but a Tuesday is always less substantial for me than a Thursday. I am sure this is some leftover remnant of my schedule in middle school when a Thursday was a heftier day than a lightweight Tuesday or a half day Wednesday.
Whatever the case I tend to start new things on Thursdays: chapters, characters, new books, pilates classes, haircuts, new shoes--all work better on a spacious, endless Thursday. Today the new stuff includes writing a new thread in The Second Book, walking in the outdoors after being sick in bed all week, trying a new fruit combination for my smoothie (strawberry, pineapple, lemonade), and starting a new novel, well an old novel that I loved but have been wanting to reread and can now that I have forgotten it all--Jude Morgan's Passion.
Don't you love when you forget a book just enough to discover it all over again? It is like rediscovering the perfect pair of jeans in the back of your closet. I also recycleTwilight and old episodes of The West Wing just like this.
Passion is a lush imagining of the women behind the Romantic poets. Beginning in the turbulent Europe of 1789 it unfolds in rich, unbridled prose. I love books that weave around existing facts and paint a story that might have happened. Coleridge, Keats, Byron, and Shelley appear and disappear but the story is for the women. In terms of character, it is woven on a huge frame. I love that it is an expansive novel. I can move in and make camp. Love that.
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Why do I suddenly feel sooo - er - illiterate? Need more time to read, I've always loved it... I'm currently reading a freebie that came with a magazine, "If you could see me now" by Cecelia Ahern... Not Proust but at least I'm reading and enjoying it and that's the main thing ;-) Have you tried blueberry, banana and pineapple (juice) for a smoothie? Mmmmm... Love from London x
ReplyDelete'Don't you love when you forget a book just enough to discover it all over again?'
ReplyDeleteIndeed..you've put it so beautifully :) I had forgot about Enid Blyton's Malory Towers series and when I saw them in the library I wanted to read them. It's such a lovely feeling!
i love cecilia ahern! i think i have three copies of ps i love you! mmm smoothie sounds good!
ReplyDeletekals, it is a lovely feeling! like going to a city that you already know you love! i have always wanted to read blyton!
Now a Wednesday is my hefty day and I normally choose a Tuesday as my new day! I have never of this before.
ReplyDeleteisn't it strange how those perceptions work?
ReplyDeletewhen you get old enough, every book is a new book. Not only do you not remember the story, you don't remember if you ever read it. You don't even remember having bought it. Your bookshelves are full of surprises -- not always a bad thing.
ReplyDeletewhen you get old enough, every book is a new book. Not only do you not remember the story, you don't remember if you ever read it. You don't even remember having bought it. Your bookshelves are full of surprises -- not always a bad thing.
ReplyDeletedefinitely not a bad thing! my mom says that also. she can now perpetually enjoy her favorites because she keeps forgetting them!
ReplyDeleteI reread my favorite books all the time. The second and third or even fourth reading...you notice little details you missed before.
ReplyDeleteDon't you love when you forget a book just enough to discover it all over again?'
ReplyDeleteI feel this way about Anne of Green Gables every time I read...thanks for putting my thoughts into words.
You just reminded me (for a second time!) that I want/need to unearth Passion from my towering stacks/bookshelves. Funny thing about the days of the week -- Tuesday is by far my fave. Maybe because I dislike Mondays so much!
ReplyDeletejen, i agree! the more you read something you love the m ore reasons you find to love it.
ReplyDeletebeth, i also love anne of green gables... must reread soon :)
bibliophiliac, i just read your wonderful post about eula bliss--thank you!
ok, now i have to read "passion". also must try that smoothie combination. :) and oh yes,i often like to rehash west wing episodes! thursdays are my "ok, the crazy days are over for the week, time to relax, go slow, breathe" and like you, start new things, think, re-organize, change my hair. but i never put that pattern into words - thank you for doing so!
ReplyDeleteyou will love passion! you will love every word! xxxxx
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