Journal

A Roth Winter

Day Of Indignation

Yesterday was the 16th, meaning it was the date of release of the new Philip Roth, Indignation. I suppose that’s something you already know and I don’t have to tell you about, but so there.

In celebration, I’m planning to read a couple of Roths that I’ve missed, like Everyman, and reread a couple of classics, like American Pastoral. It’ll be a good excuse for me to add them to my library too. I won’t be able to get my hands on them so soon, so it’ll probably be… by the end of the year. A Roth Winter, so to speak.

Other Readings

Of course, just reading Roth alone would kill me. Apart from the usual fiction and graphic novels, I’ll probably identify a couple of writers I want to re-explore along the way. A sort of targets thing, I guess. I’m thinking Borges and Nabokov now, but I’m sure I’ll change my mind by year’s end.

School =(

School leaves me very tired. It’s not like it’s tremendously busy or anything. It’s more like a vampire visited during my sleep and decided just to leech me of blood and never turn me into another one of the undead because… I suppose it means more competition.

Oh, and tomorrow, I’m going to drop by at an advanced literature module just to have a look. I have a feeling I will be terribly out of place, considering I haven’t even one basic literature module under my belt, but hey, the academia doesn’t worry me that much. Hope it turns out interesting. I think they’re doing Jeanette Winterson, which, curiously enough, is the one writer in the whole module whom I’m not familiar with. =S

Test today. Wish me luck.

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