We'll Meet Again Wednesday

[evelyn_b]

It's been a little while since I've posted here and I'd like to apologize, if (like me under better circumstances) you look forward to reading everyone's book posts on Wednesday, for falling down on the job. There's a sort of obsolete function at the back of my mind that's still going "Wait, wait, wait a few more days, wait until things get back to

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[scripsi]

I hope you will get the job!

[evelyn_b]

Thank you! It would be ideal in a lot of ways, but probably kind of a long shot.

[lost_spook]

But I've checked it out again and soon I will be back on the revenge trail with everyone's favorite poisoned cinnamon roll.

:-D

It seems only right that your path to reading it should have at least a few twists and turns. (Although... the library shouldn't mind unless you're late and a serial defaulter on fines. Borrowing and renewing the books was always sufficient to make you a Good Egg as far as we were concerned.) Good luck with the job, though! ♥

"You probably won't read this to the end, and I can't blame you, but you should! BUT YOU'LL PROBABLY REGRET IT." I'm not even close to regretting it so far, but it's only Book 3 of 15.

This is like me with Public Eye, though. Although PE only needs warning for some inevitable opinions of the time, being as it is not written by Tarka the Nazi Otter guy. Thankfully. But you can hang on in there with Burgess. he sounds as if he needs company, even if it is a tad belated.

[evelyn_b]

Thanks!

I wonder how many people Burgess has enticed into reading Henry Williamson? Sometimes dire warnings are intriguing.

In these early books you can sort of see the path to Nature Fascism here and there, or I imagine I can because I've been warned that it's there, but if I hadn't been warned I would automatically just attribute it to flawed characters. Some of the characters are burgeoning Nature Fascists, but even though it's possible to feel sorry for Dickie, he's hardly being presented in a heroic light. We'll see. . .

[lost_spook]

Yes, nothing like a DO NOT ENTER sign to get people's curiosity going!

[osprey_archer]

Well, I for one am glad that you're back. I have also been struggling with the sense that nothing matters anymore, more with writing than with reading, but as you say ceasing to do everything that we enjoy isn't meaningful action.

How far have you gotten in Monte Cristo? I've gotten to the part where the Count's wheels within wheels are really starting to spin, and it's hard to stop myself at just one chapter a night.

[evelyn_b]

Thank you - I'm glad to be back, or will be soon.

I haven't been able to read MC since early November, so I'm right where I was - Chapter 56, I think? But that's about to change.

[liadtbunny]

Good luck with the job!

I'm glad someone didn't nab the Count before you could grab him again:)

[evelyn_b]

Thank you! :)

My library actually has five copies of The Count of Monte Cristo, all the same cheap-fancy pseudo-leather edition with significant words carved on the cover. The Count has cloned himself, to exact vengeance more efficiently! It was the logical next step.

[liadtbunny]

Lol, if you can't delegate cloning is the way to go:)

[wordsofastory]

There's a sort of obsolete function at the back of my mind that's still going "Wait, wait, wait a few more days, wait until things get back to normal." Unfortunately, there hasn't been a "normal" to get back to, and there isn't going to be.

Yeah. I deeply understand this feeling. But nonetheless I'm glad to see you around again, and I do look forward to your posts.

[evelyn_b]

Thank you - I look forward to yours. It still feels a little weird to be talking about books, but what's the alternative? I'm glad we can talk about books.