I Can Understand Proust Dropouts

Slugged on tonight and read another 10 pages of Within a Budding Grove, Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time by Proust. The writing style is great but somewhat dense...like Dickens on steroids!

I almost shudder when I pick up the book but usually enjoy the read once I get started.

I shall complete my mission.

This Program is now Funding my Book Purchases

As you all know I love books and reading. I joined an online program called CTP a year ago and I checked today and I am making about $170 USD per month into my PayPal account. Unexpected and very welcome.

So guess what I got online at the Book Repository and purchased some collections of poetry and essays by Rainer Rilke and Dana Gioia.

This is awesome.

You can join this program by clicking on the link: http://trckrs.com/36948/

Beating the Block

I usually have around 20 books that I am reading. No problem as I love reading, but every so often I get readers block where I don't want to read at all. The cure is usually, believe it or not, to start reading a book that is mind candy, usually a mystery or thriller. Such books don't draw on to much mental juice and gives your brain a rest.

Proust is a heavy read and some light relief gives me the energy to grind on with my Proustian pursuit.

The Proust Marathon

Reading through Proust's opus is like doing an intellectual marathon. I picked up Volume 2 again last night and started reading again. I will get there.. I will...won't I?

PS I did have now picked it up to read 3 days in a row.

The New iPad is great for reading on

My lovely daughter bought me an iPad3 sweet girl that she is. Works well with my tired old eyes. But I am writing this on my iPhone as aforesaid daughter is trying out the iPad...

Will give it a real test drive tomorrow.

In Tearing Haste

I really enjoy reading collections of letters. It is now a list art form that I cannot see being replaced by email exchanges.

In Tearing Haste is a collection of letters between Deborah Devonshire (of Chatsworth fame) and Patrick Leigh Fermor the WW2 hero in Crete.

The letters are enlightening and cover a fascinating period of history. It is a glimpse into a lifestyle that very few of us will ever directly experience.

Highly Recommended.

Dr Kelps Quote of the Day

“I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.”


Isaac Asimov

Asimov was not just a science fiction writer, either. He holds the distinction of being the only author so far to have at least one work in every possibly category of the Dewey decimal system (http://faceintheblue.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/notable-quotes-on-reading/)


The fact about the Dewey system is new to me. That is a mighty accomplishment and augurs well for Asimov's immortality (or the next 1000 yrs perhaps).

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