Ben’s Comments (group member since Oct 02, 2014)

Ben’s comments from the Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014 group.

Thanks for the warm welcome to the group, Renato, Jonathan and Dave. Will keep you posted as to my progress in the appropriate weeks (currently at Week 09/13, but catching up).

I have been with this group since October this year (after I retired) and have been reading each week's discussions as I progressed with my own reading (mainly on Kindle but also intermittently in the 3-volume Penguin Modern Classics edition). I have not been contributing up to now as I was too far behind the group, but with the end of the year approaching, the end is approaching for me also (presently at 72% of the whole and about 113 pages into 'The Captive') and I see the posted comments creeping closer to 'real time'. I have found it a great experience to be reading with the group and to read their various and varying comments. (This adds the further complication that, in addition to the large cast of characters in ISOLT, I now have to try and form mental pictures of the regular contributors to the group's discussions!) Anyhow, while continuing my reading, I thought I would just announce my presence and to indicate my firm intention to continue my reading -- both by way of a re-read and other sources, eg Patrick Alexander, which is on order -- in the new year.