reading update

READING UPDATE: I'm making good progress with Yukio Mishima's Life for Sale, but I put it down to read two satisfying magazine pieces this weekend: "The Novelists Whose Inventions Went Too Far" by D. T. Max and "The Melancholy Universe" by Laszlo F. Foldeyni. I'm also cheating on the Mishima with a new library book, The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena.

Reading

"I was doing something useful. Something useful no matter how you look at it. Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music (oh yes), like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach. And you, who are so kind, now you must be asking: What did you read, Barry? I read everything."

~~ from 2666 by Roberto Bolano