The holidays gave me some time to catch up on my reading. I didn't start anything new, but I did finish Sophie's Choice by William Styron, which I started in October of 2006. At times Styron's writing is very forced, those times when he has quite obviously pulled out the thesaurus to find another word for "desirable". On a larger scale, the story itself is quite stunning.
The 1982 film version is far too short to explore the full story.
I have made some progress on Against the Day, which has been languishing on my desk for the past few months. I am now up to page 648.
Over the weekend I decided Against the Day was a little too bulky for airplane travel, so I resumed John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany over the course of a short trip to Texas. I am about 2/3 done with this.
Posted by B Rickman at January 2, 2008 11:00 AM