New Dance Partners

The Ice Storm - Rick Moody The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan The Mighty Walzer - Howard Jacobson In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien

In the meantime, I have made nontrivial progress in all six of the above books, but it's anybody's guess which if any of them will get finished in the next several days. Is this any way to conduct a reading life? I don't know, it seems to "work" for me somehow. Two of the books from today's earlier post, Russo's The Old Cape Magic and Roth's The Ghost Writer, were both books that I'd started some time ago, and set aside. Then somehow, in the last couple of weeks, these two books "called" to me, and I was able to steam through each one of them in fairly short order. I don't think this would have happened if I hadn't permitted myself to be so fickle and inconstant about "following through" with books once I started reading them.

 

See if I can keep my "fickle, inconstant" self from being diverted to (too many) other books in the meantime.