Reading

• 2013-01-15

  Neverending

  My last post on this blog was nearly two months ago. That’s the longest gap I’ve had so far in, what is it, three years? I am writing nearly every day, but it is all going into the book. The book? It’s still plodding along like the dear little dogged thing it is. It says… Read more

• 2012-10-29

  Do that to me one more time (more on the reading experience)

  This is going to be one of those rambling blog posts where I start by describing an experience I’ve had which nobody but me could possibly care about, and end by making statements about life, the universe, and everything that … nobody but me could possibly care about. So if you came here while hopping… Read more

• 2011-02-08

  E-books and the reading marriage

  Those who read the recent posts (one, two) about my attempts to recall novels I’d read on an e-book reader will be interested in some little recursive reading I’ve been doing lately on the neurology of reading. Pretty much what I said Recently Jonah Lehrer at Wired has written a variety of short pieces around… Read more

• 2010-11-21

  Lost in a book

  Here is a strange little story related to the post I wrote about two weeks ago in relation to reading novels on e-book readers. Having finished reading Little Dorrit and having slurped up both movie versions (each best in its own way), and having gone through the customary refractory period (for respect and reflection), I… Read more

• 2010-11-04

  E-books, narrative context and the future of reading

  Here is today’s set of desultory thoughts, this time about where technology and narrative come together in e-books. The end of the line, or, a unique opportunity About two years ago I found that the time had come to read the works of Anton Chekhov. (Oh God, she’s on about literature again — No! It’s… Read more