ATD sale date, Middlemarch, measuring...

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

My sister (an English Teacher), has been talking up Bleak House for years, 
if I have any sense at all that will be my next project---after a second 
(s l   o    w     e           r) reading of AtD, finishing up "Lost Time" and 
diving into "Only Revolutions". Much to be thankful for this time around.

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From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at comcast.net>
> And I had just finished _Bleak House_ on Monday evening, with its countless 
> characters and beautifully wrought sentences, its humor and its delicious 
> descriptions -- a perfect set-up for AtD!
> 
> 
> > Oddly enough, I was in the middle (about 100 pages into "Sodom & Gomorrah) 
> > of "In Search of Lost Time", so the extraordinary number of long poetic 
> > passages in Against the Day seemed to come from a rather similar place.
> 
> > My copy still hasn't landed on my porch (and won't now until maybe 
> > Friday).  In anticipation of this worst case scenario, I had stopped at 
> > the library, and MIddlemarch was the volume deemed best suited to fill the 
> > void.  (But I am a huge fan of Melville and Moby Dick) and when the "guys" 
> > are measuring, it isn't just the thickness of the tome, but the length and 
> > elegance of the sentences....
> >
> 
> Quite true! 
>