They say confession is good for the soul
Posted on October 1, 2008
I have all but stopped reading. I was doing sooo good. I was averaging a book a week since we started the 50 Book Challenge.
Well, as per usual, my extensive TV watching habits have interfered with my reading. (Damn the new fall season!)
In addition to that, I am trying to read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov in preparation for Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, a book I attempted to read a year ago, but found it difficult to follow since I had never read Lolita.
Which, I got to say, is a difficult book to stomach. It’s all about glorifying pedophilia, and I am having a hard time with that.
Anyway, I am done making excuses. I will try to get back with the program. If anybody out there has read Lolita, it would help me to know that the narrator gets run over or eaten by dogs or something. That might make it easier to stomach.
What about that one series of books that M.D. gave you about 5 years ago?
You remember the one, right?
I read the first two in the series, and started on the third, but it began to feel overworked and predictable. So, I abandoned the third book. Hmm…it is still sitting on my book shelf, I should probably get that back to him.