Impenetrable Beginning
I recently bought a new book on an impulse. I liked the cover. I like the author, as much as I know her on Facebook. Somehow though, I have read the first four pages of this novel over and over and over again. I can never find the story. Every time I reread the beginning it is if it brand new. None of it has stuck. I don't know what I am reading.
Does that ever happen to anyone else? Cleaning up tonight, I put the book on my bookshelf. I am going to start to read something else.
Does that ever happen to anyone else? Cleaning up tonight, I put the book on my bookshelf. I am going to start to read something else.
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I agree. You sometimes have to be in the right headspace for a book. It is strange how that can happen. Incidentally, in my novel BAD MARIE, Marie recalls throwing her copy of Ulysses into the campus pond, after having been tormented by the book for an entire semester.
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I've picking up and putting down Ulysses for 15 years. I get to page 20 and my concentration just goes. It's embarrassing. One day, I'm sure, I'll pick it up and something inside me will have aligned with it, but until then I'm not forcing it.