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I don't know if you know this (how long has it been since we had a conversation like that?), but I have not been very inspired lately. Is it cynicism? Ennui? I cannot say. (Well I could...but I won't here!)
I don't know if you know this (how long has it been since we had a conversation like that?), but I have not been very inspired lately. Is it cynicism? Ennui? I cannot say. (Well I could...but I won't here!)
So it was with delight to read Zadie Smith in the New York Review of Books on the recent Facebook film. It was heartening to read someone write so beautifully about things I myself had thought around social media and the way we seem to look at, and relate to, each other.
I was so impressed by this piece that I picked up a copy of her novel On Beauty, which, interestingly, is a kind of period piece of the mid-decade that the Social Network is, although in a very different way. I enjoyed the book immensely, and in it rediscovered a love of reading I thought had disappeared (as it often does, and likely will again).
For right now though, things are good!
Although I don't get many commenters here, would anyone like to let me know what they've read lately that has reaffirmed their love of the written word?
I was so impressed by this piece that I picked up a copy of her novel On Beauty, which, interestingly, is a kind of period piece of the mid-decade that the Social Network is, although in a very different way. I enjoyed the book immensely, and in it rediscovered a love of reading I thought had disappeared (as it often does, and likely will again).
For right now though, things are good!
Although I don't get many commenters here, would anyone like to let me know what they've read lately that has reaffirmed their love of the written word?
2 comments:
I'm reading David Thomson's biography of David O. Selznick. The writer is better than the subject, in this case.
I recently discovered Charles Stross, in particular the 'Laundry' series. I don't know if it qualifies as something that would reaffirm anyone else's love of the written word, but I'm finding it funny as hell, and enjoying it immensely....
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