Comments on: About the project http://literarysummits.com Big books, big issues (thoughts on religion and literature) Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:14:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: admin http://literarysummits.com/index.php/about-the-project/#comment-3912 admin Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:35:16 +0000 http://literarysummits.com/index.php/about-the-project/#comment-3912 Clint, Thanks for your comment. As you can tell, I fell off the bloghorse for a while and am just now climbing back in the saddle. In the meantime, I had put Proust down and have been reading some George Eliot. I just finished Silas Marner last week and got Adam Bede as a gift recently. The shorter pieces are getting me fired up for Middlemarch. But Proust comes first -- at least I need to complete Swann's Way before moving on. I confess, when it comes to reading, I am a philanderer. That's not a mortal sin, is it? Part of the reason for the blog is to keep me on track, even when my inclination is to move on to other (shorter) books. Ben Clint,

Thanks for your comment.

As you can tell, I fell off the bloghorse for a while and am just now climbing back in the saddle. In the meantime, I had put Proust down and have been reading some George Eliot. I just finished Silas Marner last week and got Adam Bede as a gift recently. The shorter pieces are getting me fired up for Middlemarch. But Proust comes first — at least I need to complete Swann’s Way before moving on.

I confess, when it comes to reading, I am a philanderer. That’s not a mortal sin, is it? Part of the reason for the blog is to keep me on track, even when my inclination is to move on to other (shorter) books.

Ben

]]> By: Clint http://literarysummits.com/index.php/about-the-project/#comment-3544 Clint Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:39:44 +0000 http://literarysummits.com/index.php/about-the-project/#comment-3544 Tale of Genji has been on our shelf for a few years now--for some reason I have never been able to convince our book group to tackle it, even though I bring it often and suggest it... :) I also am thankful that you admitted defeat on at least one book. I have been defeated multiple times by Proust, and only ever read the first half Don Quixote. You might be interested to know that my wife read the first 3/4ths of War & Peace while we were living in Slovakia, but then gave up on the project because she had to return the novel to the school library when we moved back to the states. Seven years later, she finally picked it up and finished it when it came out in a new translation. And speaking of new translations, this is one of the reasons over time I have been enticed to read these works- translations by respected and talented translators. It's how I read the Iliad after being forced to read the Odyssey in college... Of all the books you are reading, the one that has been the most formative on my literary and personal imagination is actually Middlemarch. Casaubon and all that. I'm glad you're tackling it! Tale of Genji has been on our shelf for a few years now–for some reason I have never been able to convince our book group to tackle it, even though I bring it often and suggest it… :)

I also am thankful that you admitted defeat on at least one book. I have been defeated multiple times by Proust, and only ever read the first half Don Quixote.

You might be interested to know that my wife read the first 3/4ths of War & Peace while we were living in Slovakia, but then gave up on the project because she had to return the novel to the school library when we moved back to the states. Seven years later, she finally picked it up and finished it when it came out in a new translation.

And speaking of new translations, this is one of the reasons over time I have been enticed to read these works- translations by respected and talented translators. It’s how I read the Iliad after being forced to read the Odyssey in college…

Of all the books you are reading, the one that has been the most formative on my literary and personal imagination is actually Middlemarch. Casaubon and all that. I’m glad you’re tackling it!

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