Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule

[David Morris]

I am the tortoise when it comes to reading.  I typically get in about
75 minutes per night after work, sitting on my front "stoop" with an
adult beverage and four pugs, and sometimes my wife joins us.  As this
is "stoop sitting" reading, it is subject to interruptions from
passers-by, and since the house is in the French Quarter, there are
likely to be a few of those each night.  Thus a slow, but fully-loaded
reading experience.  The dogs eagerly wait for this ritual to begin
every evening.  Books get read, but at a tortoise's pace.  10 pages
per night is an unlikely stretch.

Me on the stoop w/ 2 of the pack:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23254368@N03/

Stoop-sitting, a New Orleans tradition, featured on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5618203


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My sense is that Coetzee is less "dense" than Pynchon, but in some ways more subtle and "difficult".  So a slower reading is certainly possible.