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No, I haven't had gamey meat.

Have you seen the sun rise over one ocean and set over another, on the same day?

Nope...can't say that that's happened to me

Has it happened to you?

Yes, when I moved back from LA I left at sunrise over the Pacific. Then had a lengthy stop-over and watched the sun set over the Atlantic. It was really incredible.

Where do you like to sit in on airplanes? (front, wing, back)?

I'd rather sit in a window seat.....preferably not at the wing! I would prefer the front of the plane.

Same question.

Same. I like window seats and I'm always careful to be far from the wing. Front or back doesn't matter as long as there's a clear sight line past the wing.

What is your favourite fiction novel?

I really liked "Bleak House" when I read it.

There was substantial satire---but also substantial parody.

Very entertaining.

I also enjoyed reading the "Idiot" very much.

I don't even have to ask Isabella that question....if I didn't know it by now, I'd just assume be spanked


Are you impressed by the fact that even Central London looks green from the air?

Books I lugged home tonight:

Austen, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice (I never liked Austen, but I brought them home regardless)

Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim

Dickens, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot

Eliot, Daniel Deronda

Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

Joyce, Portrait of the Artist, Dubliners, Ulysses

Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, A Writer's Diary, Orlando

Just a little light reading for when I finish my Brontë stash.

Have you read any of these and which did you like / dislike?

Why don't you like Austen? I've always found he to be wryly witty. I've read about three of her books.

I've read parts of "Heart of Darkness." Enjoyed it.

Dickens: One of my favorites. I wish he didn't dislike the US so much, though.

Dostoyevsky: One of my favorites. Read some of his obscure, as well as his popular works.

Eliot: "Middlemarch." Enjoyed it very much. None of her other works.

Hardy: Some of his poems, and "The Mayor of Casterbridge." Enjoyed the novel very much. Very substantial.

Joyce: Again, one of my favorites. Especially "The Portrait of The Artist....." Found Ulysses to be "experimentally obscure." I have be in the mood for that sort of writing.

Wolff: Only read her correspondence. Very mundane at times. Wasn't entranced by it.


Do you like somebody like Leo Tolstoy?

I've actually never been assigned to read Tolstoy, and as its so dense I didn't take time to read him for leisure.
I loved Casterbridge too. I think we discussed it once. It reminded me of a Shakespearian play at many points.
I also love Jude, Tess and Blue Eyes.

The books I brought back tonight are just "left overs" from Uni that I wasn't immediately interested to retain. As you know I have virtually all the other titles here. I have Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner here but still can't find Middlemarch.

Austen is dull and overly-social. She doesn't get into the primitive mind like the Brontës can. I don't need astute observation, I need astute "being".

What was the worst book you ever had to read in school / college?

Oops, I found three more books from tonight (meaning I brought 22):

Collins, The Moonstone (really good Victorian mystery)
Woolf, A Haunted House and other Short Stories (includes A Mark on the Wall)

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

WOOT.

Probably one of the medieval “confessional” pieces. Worse than St. Augustine.

“Anna Karenina” is a very substantial work with a suitably tragic ending. It delves into many issues. I recommend it. It also extols womanhood in a progressive sense at times.

Do you like the “Epistle” novels? Or “Moll Flanders?”

Ezra Pound was a pretentious Modernist. So was T.S Eliot—-but “Profruck” is good.

Never read Collins.

I read Moll Flanders years ago, but don't really remember it.
I didn't mind Pound. I remember thinking he was a girl for the longest time.
I like TS: Wasteland and Prufrock. I was a big fan of CATS too.

Have you read Ruth (Gaskell)? That's another I can't find.

Nope. Never read that.

Pound was deliberately obscure, with a disdain for his readers. Eliot, less so.

Both became quite conservative as they got older. Pound had Fascist tendencies.

How about Salinger’s non-Catcher works?

On your knees boy. I bet you can't recall my second favourite Brontë book.

I bet it was the “unfinished” one....