I remember brighter days when all this was a mystery

[sovay]

In the last three or four days, to judge from the pile beside my bed, I have read Mary Renault's The Charioteer and The Friendly Young Ladies, Lawrence Durrell's Justine and Balthazar, Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That, David Mura's Angels for the Burning, and Aischylos' Oresteia (in Greek).

I cannot possibly predict what effect this combination will have on my writing, but I hope to God I like it.

Comments

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Goodness.

Nothing like a little light bedtime reading!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, that's rich. Do you never read froth?

Nine

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Well, I must say that simultaneously reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Mansfield Park" was quite amusing.

I read the one: death, intrigue and revenge. In the other, it's the height of action when a male character decides to pursue the protagonist.

However, it has certainly had a singular effect upon my writing. Mayhap it shall be naught but temporary -- though I am amused greatly by it, nonetheless.

[larryhammer]

It's the tossing Durrell into the mix that worries me most. Especially when not leavened with My Family and Other Animals.

---L.

[ebess.livejournal.com]

And I shall pose to you a question I recently asked (http://ebess.livejournal.com/555053.html) over on my journal: how much time per day do you spend on pleasure reading?

Your books have arrived and are now on my bedside, along with Francine Prose's THE LIVES OF THE MUSES, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF FAIRY TALES, Maria Tatar's SECRETS BEYOND THE DOOR and Zipe's second half of his Sicilian folktales collection, the name of which I can't remember just now...