Bookworm

[moonwise]

When I was a kid, I read voraciously, and was always having one book or another taken away in class.

As I got older, I didn't read quite as much, and with the advent of the Internet, somehow the number of books I read a year fell off dramatically. It was bothersome - like I'd lost a talent.

On Friday after work, I went to Borders and picked up a copy of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," intending to make it last for a weekend.

It didn't last an hour and a half.

It was good to know that was still possible - to be so engrossed in a book that you can't stop reading even for dinner or a trip to the potty.

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[ssilverfish.livejournal.com]

Possession is about a pair of literary scholars that each specialize in a particular Victorian poet (fabricated for this book). They discover that the two poets may have had a relationship (after one finds a draft of a letter in the old manuscript he's working with), and much of the book consists of the correspondence of these two poets, with excerpts of their poetry, etc. Presumably the two scholars fall in love with each other, too, as this is titled Possession: A Romance. But I don't know. I'm not even halfway through it yet.

It's not a bad book, it's just not grabbing me. It's extremely descriptive (you're hard-pressed to find a noun that doesn't have a string of colors attached to it), yet somehow not engaging. It might be that I know I have to read it now, so I can give it back to this friend before we move. :)