Rohan Maitzen

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All is not lost in the meantime as I “have” to read A Room of One’s Own and Daniel Deronda for work.

There is somehow not one book in my home I feel like reading. It’s awful! But Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man is on its way from Blackwells so that’s something to look forward to.

The Wedding People?

“This delicate-limbed sylph of twenty meant to lead”: I’ve started rereading Daniel Deronda, which we start in class next week, and it goes so hard.

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Don't get me started on Mr. Casaubon.

Silas Marner is 55 at the end of Silas Marner. 55. 😏

This feels like classic psychological abuse

I am going to take away what you need

and then give it back so you feel indebted to me

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I have felt like I'm running behind all day and now it's almost over. 😬

It's such a fun and provocative novel!

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Unfortunately the library did not agree that a guided group read-along of Lady Audley's Secret would be a "sensational summer reading club" to offer. (I get that they only have so many rooms and times! Maybe next summer.)

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The framing is "tough choices" but it seems so clear they are making what they consider easy ones - "low-hanging fruit" because not backed by big money and power. A tougher choice (politically) would be undoing ill-considered (if politically advantageous) cuts to HST etc.

JFC there is no bottom is there.

Honestly I am so touched now by midterm answers full of spelling mistakes and confusing syntax and haphazard punctuation showing the honest to god efforts of a human being learning to articulate ideas about readings they are only just getting familiar with.

Someone quoted from a review that noted it is the kind of book men like better than women. I am very wary of that kind of generalization! And yet perhaps there are genre features of it that just didn't appeal to our particular group.

Book club today. Nobody liked Venomous Lumpsucker; very rarely for us, several did not even finish it. I mean, we mostly hated Money but we all loved reading and discussing it so this is a real low for us!

A fairly common surname in this area is Outhouse. 🙃

I have the de Longhi 'Pinguino' and it is effective and pretty efficient (and not crazy loud). (I am also a renter and a window unit is not an option for me. I really wish my building would install heat pumps!)

("how else is a mind like hers supposed to enjoy itself?")

“She wrote. She wrote. She wrote.” Virginia Woolf, Orlando Orlando had so ordered it that she was in an extremely happy position; she need neither fight her age, nor submit to it; she was of it, yet remained herself. Now, therefore, she could write, and wr…

"it’s a book that is always on the verge of spiraling off into chaos" 😁

I am disproportionately relieved that the annoying new Wordpress set-up that no longer lets me insert an em-dash does, it turns out, automatically convert two hyphens to an em-dash when you publish.

A Bit Sheepish About Woolf I have not stopped reading through Woolf’s diaries. I finished Volume 3 some time ago and have begin Volume 4. I have not stopped finding memorable or thought-provoking or delightful moments …

In which I sheepishly admit: in between the post-it flags that festoon my volumes of Woolf's diaries are stretches that I didn't find that interesting...which is fine, really, as they were never meant to be masterpieces.

I found it instantly insufferable.

I think so.

Well 15 minutes of Netflix's Vladimir was more than enough for me. It combines two of my least favorite things: it mistakes being arch for being clever and it is tedious about (its imagined version of) academia.

Me neither!