The little white attic

I’ve been reading Light in August . Faulkner is very, very different from Proust. People (or rather Proust fans) often say that after Proust...

Soon we will enter the 2020s, so let’s talk about our reading over the past decade, shall we?   1/ I came to Norway in 2009—before this, I ...

- 10 favourite novels (updated): Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Pnin by Vlad...

I've just come across a blog post suggesting that readers intimidated by "long, challenging, and/or depressing classic novels"...

http://www.themillions.com/2011/05/the-stockholm-syndrome-theory-of-long-novels.html 1/ I've been reading Moby Dick for over a month....

Anna Karenina (Lev Tolstoy) War and Peace (Lev Tolstoy) Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov) Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) A Hero ...

We all have literary prejudices, don't we? Like some people refuse to read Nabokov, at least Lolita , because they think it romanticises...

From a brilliant post by Himadri at The Argumentative Old Git :  "Some writers paint, as it were, with small brush-strokes. With t...

... You’re alive in the world. You see man. You have an insatiable curiosity about him, but more than that you have an admiration for him. ...

1/ Anna Karenina (Lev Tolstoy)  2/ War and Peace (Lev Tolstoy)  3/ The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)  4/ Notes from Undergroun...

So I've finished reading War and Peace (8/6- 9/7). a) I probably won't watch any adaptation. As with The Sound and the Fury , I...

Before continuing, you'd better read or skim through this post: http://anotherbookblog.com/2013/10/03/separating-the-art-from-the-artist...