Why the To Read bookcase never gets any emptier

[flemmings]

Oh look. I *do* have a copy of Vol 3 of The Soul of the Dragon King. It was down in the front room all along, while I waded through 40 pages of vol 4 wondering Who are these people anyway?, convinced that 3 was the volume I failed to find back in '96.

Of course, now I have to *read* it. Oh well.

Equally, it's fine to be lavish and pound foolish and to buy five volumes of the English translation of FMA in a single fell swoop. (Must look up 'fell swoop' and find what it refers to. Birds, I bet. And yes, birds it is. Also Macbeth, a play I've never got far with because it has, well, too many famous quotes that get in the way.)

But of course, now I have to *read* them. Oh well.

Comments

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

LOL! A friend of mine went to see various S. plays once for the first time and was baffled at how everyone thought they were so wonderful - they're full of cliches...

I have read Howl's Moving Castle 5 times in the past two weeks ... can't see to get past it to anything else ... Sigh.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Alas, it's the problem with Shakespeare. I know it makes acting Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet a problem-- audiences tend to giggl at the tied and true lines.

I wouldn't have thought Howl was so rivetting. Some DWJ books need to be read at least three times but Howl is relatively straightforward.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Howl isn't that riveting. I think, now that I think of it, that it's comfort reading. Something easy and well known and doesn't require any effort of me. Most especially something non-irritating. Big deadline next week at work and a problem I haven't been able to figure out, I suspect are contributing to my escapism of choice ...