Sometimes people come up to me and say, “I could write a novel about my life.” I think I have committed the same act of hubris in the blog genre. I am a bad blogger. And I apologize. I am a blog sloth and my blog should be called a slog. I only blog when I have insomnia, and I have been sleeping well lately. But tonight, I’m up, so, let’s see…
I love Zoe Heller’s new book, The Believers, and wrote a review of it in The New York review of Books.
I love Roy Blount’s book, Alphabet Soup.
I realized I had never read Oliver Twist and tried to read it and to my astonishment, I didn’t like it much.
I reread David Copperfield and loved it as much as always.
I tried to read Tristram Shandy for the third time and thought it was brilliant and for the third time did not finish.
I discovered Olivia Manning. School of Love is a beautiful book. With the extra pleasure of sublime descriptions of a cat. Now I’m reading The Balkan Trilogy.
I read a few Angela Thirkell novels, some brilliant, some boring.
I read Pnin for the first time. I love Pnin, the man.
I love the movie Happy Go Lucky.
I love all of Michelle Obama’s dresses and will concentrate on them and the dog whenever possible. I’m only human.
Here is a terrific painting by Helen Wilson that’s in her new show:
A bad blogger…
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Yes, Oliver Twist is a genuine disappointment, pabulum for the people. Still, Dickens made good money from it, money that allowed him to keep writing.
Cathy, you should write a piece about Michelle’s dresses. Everyone is talking about them, everyone has an opinion, but so far I haven’t heard anyone say anything very intelligent. For my part, as much as I admire him and their family, I wish she would lighten up a bit. What’s with the scowl?
And while we’re on the subject, I wish she would loosen up a bit, too. She lacks his essential cool, his composure and elegant sense of amour propre. Remember Teresa Heinz? She was genuinely and refreshingly herself at every turn. How she could stand living with buttoned up sourpuss like John Kerry I’ll never know.
Hey, Mr. Henry, the dresses, the dresses…not the relationships. Pretty dresses. Lots of different ones. That’s all I ask in my superficial pleasures. But since you mention it, I think Michelle Obama has a beautiful smile. And cool shoes. That’s my political stance, and I’m stickin’ to it!
And toned arms. She has toned arms.
Cathy, being an infrequent blogger does NOT make you a bad blogger!