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"I want.  I want…"  (many, many pages) It seems lately that every book I select from the shelves, out of hundreds, seems to mean something relevant to my life and situtions at the time.  But then that’s what a reader’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve gotten through five chapters of this Saul Bellow classic though I haven’t posted anything yet on it.  I’m impressed by the writing, a psychological realism style where we have the first person narrator, a fifty year old man named … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This Saul Bellow novel was not my first choice.  I pulled out three possibilities from the shelves:  Barth’s Lost in the Fun House, Cortazar’s Hopscotch, and On the Nature of Things by Lucretius.  Since I’m only halfway through Borges’ Ficciones, … Continue reading → Continue reading →