I’ve been a regular visitor to Ayelet Waldman’s booklog for a while. Her reading list is a good source of titles for a trip to the library, and her assessments are blunt and unpretentious. (Sample review: “Country of Origin by Don Lee. This is a pretty good novel, although if the writer gave me one more descriptive sentence about the main character I was going to track him down and tattoo “show, don’t tell” onto his ass.”) I also feel kinship with anyone who embarks on regular Nabokovian-fueled plans for self-improvement.
Now she’s got a blog!
Alright, Carrie. Now it’s time to write up a book proposal: “How to Take Back Your Life with Nabokov.”
Comment by Ed — 12/22/2004 @ 4:10 pm
I can’t imagine anything more distasteful than having written such a book. Unless of course it made me piles of money. I realize, though, I should have explained A.W.’s particular Nabokov self-improvement plan: She got the book of his lectures and then is reading the classics mentioned in them (Mme. Bovary, Bleak House, etc.). Mine, as mentioned above, is to learn chess.
Comment by CAAF — 12/22/2004 @ 4:32 pm