The Future, or the Recent Past
Yes, I am determined to keep writing this blog, though I’m unsure if anyone but spambots are reading it. Obviously I’ve stalled out a few times, usually because my rate of reading exceeds my ability to think of anything to say about what I’ve read. Also, I haven’t been able to settle on a reading pattern. I started this blog to document my thoughts on post-WWII literature, and that’s what I mostly read for quite awhile. But I’ve felt the need at various times to move both backward and forward in time, first delving into the Western Canon, and now stepping into the year 2007.
Why 2007?
Well, it has to do with the recent death of the bookstore chain called Borders. I worked for that company for quite some time, and while I was there I made an attempt to keep up with current literature. This ended almost entirely when I left the store in October, 2007. That’s when my attention turned to the year 1946.
Four years later I’m determined to catch up. not by reading every highly praised book published since 2007, but just the ones I want to. Luckily the New York Times Book Reviews from this period are available online, so I can move through the books week by week, probably never reaching the present.
October 18th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
I am still reading, and I am not a spambot!