Sunday, September 5, 2010

Halfway there

So I'm liking The Bell Jar. It's everything I hoped Huckleberry Finn would be, minus the the Mississippi. Imagine an actual character spewing actual social commentary, rather than just confusing insinuations that are supposed to be clever but actually just make me feel stupid.

I really like the mix of description, dialog and internal commentary. It's so refreshingly well done.

That's all I really have to say. I think I'll be reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall when I finish The Bell Jar (hopefully by the end of this week) and then I'll finish Huckleberry Finn. Then I'm thinking Ernest Hemingway. We all need a little Hemingway, right?