I'll be taking this weekend easy starting Saturday night.
We have a few simple plans for Saturday, but they will take me away from home. I will be doing something I don't normally do, and focusing on ONE novel.
I'm about 100 pages into the 820 page volume, and quickly finishing it is NOT a goal of mine, but I am finding myself really enjoying that hypnotic trance like state I go into when reading Proust at night.
I've already mentioned that I loathe people telling other people how/when/why to read books with a definitive air of elitism, but it is good to listen to those who have mounted the beast that is In Search of Lost Time.
Commonly, people mention NOT reading Proust quickly.
"Quickly" is relative, but I think we get the point.. inhaling the novel is seemingly frowned upon.
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| The Guermantes Way (Volume III)- Vintage Classics Edition |
I do love that feeling of a free set of hours and deeply going into the novel with some light classical music in my background and then emerging hours later and stumbling back into reality.
I won't let anyone tell me this isn't a great way to read Proust! I love those experiences.
I fondly remember reading Swann's Way on an airplane on the way to New Orleans. The passengers were mostly asleep and the plane was pin drop quiet.
I was so deeply immersed for those 3 hours that when the plane landed, I felt that I needed to wake up although I wasn't asleep.
I will report back at the end of the weekend about my experience with The Guermantes Way and let y'all know if I added anything from my Autumn TBR as a concurrent read. Rarely am I working on one book at a time so this will be great.
OH... my physical editions of In Search of Lost Time may come today from the UK as well! I got the Vintage Classics edition. I am so excited. I'll be adding these 6 novels to my 25 book physical book collection.
Here's hoping that you have the time and space to sink into a great novel this weekend.
Happy reading my slow living friends.
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