360 odd pages, Pat. I persisted and was interested in what she had to say
about migraines and dreams protecting sleep but her pieces about viewing
art were pretty inconsequential I thought. I do recommend her husband Paul
Auster's work. I think he would pass the 10-page test eg Smoke,
Oracle Night, New York trilogy, In the country of last things.
Bill
On Wednesday, 27 January 2016, Patrick McManus <
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> Bill liked idea of previous readers -wondered how far page 98 was in the
> book -But sometimes one gets a book with usually pencilled comments some
> poor person on a course maybe
> cheers P I am training myself for a ten page rule if it does not work by
> then out with it -we don't have the time left!
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: At least two readers
>
> Name: Keough, Michael Philip,
> one 'l', he must have said
> many a time, this
> previous borrower
> of the book I am reading,
> Living, Thinking, Looking,
> a series of essays
> by Siri Hustvedt,
> wife of novelist
> and poet Paul Auster.
>
> So how, I wonder,
> did you find Siri,
> Michael Philip?
> Not how did you come by her
> but how satisfied were you
> with what Siri offered
> by way of words?
> Your borrowing slip
> from Goldfields Library
> in Bendigo slipped
> from page 98, nearly
> halfway through
> an examination
> of the difference
> between memoir
> and fiction.
>
> Am I to assume this
> is where you gave
> Siri short shrift?
> If so, you did better
> than I did because
> by this point
> I was skimming.
> Not scanning you
> understand, not
> seeking particular
> information, just
> eye-raking, hoping
> to be arrested.
>
> 'Memory is flux',
> mmm. 'Fictions
> are remembered too'.
> The whereabouts
> of storage is moot.
> Are poems reclaimed
> memories resorted?
> Perhaps the next
> borrower will better
> justify their slip
> than you or me,
> Michael.
>
> bw
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