Kitten Scribbles

Excerpted from an email to my mom, who reads magazines in the bathroom: I keep magazines in the bathrooms but they're mostly for guests. I read books in the bathroom. (I have an upstairs book, a downstairs book, and a portable book. I only read the upstairs book when I'm upstairs or in the upstairs bathroom; similar with the downstairs book; the portable book gets read at work and when K is driving. If I read more than three books at a time, then the system gets messed up.)

So I just finished my portable book, Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover. I picked it up at a used book sale, unaware that it was actually historical fiction based on a real-life love triangle. (I would probably not have read it, knowing the background; historical fiction usually kind of annoys me, unless Shakespeare is doing it.) ( more on the book... )

Verdict: Good, but I won't read it again. If I find another Sontag novel for under $5, though, I'd probably pick it up.

Back from Canada (obviously). Got to sleep as late as I wanted for the first time since Christmas break; absolutely luxurious. Am now in the midst of doing multiple loads of laundry at K's place; his basement is cold, so I like to blanket myself with clothes fresh from the dryer before I fold them. Mom used to take dryer loads and dump them over my sister and me when we were smaller. Now I do it to myself and the cat. The cat loves it.

I'm trying to keep notes on Ulysses as I read, for fear that the entire "novel" will resolve into an incoherent mess in my head. Chapter 1-6 were being read on the plane and so I didn't really stop to record impressions... but from 7 onward I figured I'd try to keep track of reactions. Heavy reliance on this synopsis, which I'm using to try to make sense of it all.

( part 7 through 10 )