Status Updates From Waterland

αργά και βασανιστικά, γιατί έτσι εκτιμάς καλύτερα τα λογοτεχνικά διαμάντια.

English 100 Years of Solitude, if I may?

Mais je vais le finir un jour ce maudit bouquin?? Argh.

Very Thomas Hardy-esque!

Misplaced the book... Unintentional? Subliminal? Wasn't ready for it after The Art of Fielding. Moved on to The Falls by Joyce. Carol Oats

I can't seem to get back into this despite some awesome prose and a good plot..it may languish on the half-finished pile.

"Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?"

"it cannot be denied, children, that the greatest so-called forward movements of civilization, whether moral or technological, have invariably brought with them an accompanying regression."

Chapter 6 is awesome: We work to convince ourselves that "reality is not an empty vessel."

glacial progress waaaaa

One of the stranger writing styles I've encountered of late, but good...very good.

read this book and it is a reflection in people and place and how familes come to be and fall apart.

is a very intriguing read so far...