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Tuesday, March 22, 2016 7:14:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Re-entry:
Lizzie said, "Gustave Moreau, Jupiter and Semele Within a Budding Grove, pp. 528-533. I still have the 5-year-old notes for these pages, but to ease the task of getting back into reading Proust himself (rather than just my old blog posts and some books about his..." more
Friday, March 18, 2016 6:09:13 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled The center of attention:
Lizzie said, "The final reblogging from 5 years ago. Within a Budding Grove, 514-528 Queen Ranavalo III of Madagascar One of the perks of reading Proust is finding out about obscure personages. Although his main characters are his own creations (albeit based on..." more
Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:31:15 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled I’m such a demanding reader:
Lizzie said, "Back in 2010-11, while working my way through 500+ pages of tiny print (I’ve just counted — 48 lines per page), I complained a bit about the lack of illustrations in some other books. I’m amused now that I never had that thought..." more
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:53:06 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Proust brought forward:
Lizzie said, "One last detour on my journey through past Proust posts, to a novel whose title reveals its relevance. Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen (2003), Kate Taylor, 457 pp. This novel, set in three time periods, is about women and how they cope with..." more
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 7:19:05 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Marcel comments on hotel guests:
Lizzie said, "I’m nearing the end of these posts from the past (I think). However many remain, though, I’m determined to end this week with real-time reading and blogging. Within a Budding Grove, pp. 504-514 Saint Blandina, courtesy..." more
Monday, March 14, 2016 5:43:18 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled A winter’s tale:
Lizzie said, "Another promise to myself this year is to write some short fiction, so I’m trying an experiment: one short story per month (most are going up on Wattpad). Let’s see how long I can keep this up. In 2013, my sister sent me this card..." more
Sunday, March 13, 2016 7:56:43 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Marcel on the Beach:
Lizzie said, "Warning: I get a bit philosophical here. Within a Budding Grove, pp. 488-504 Grand Hotel, Cabourg Marcel has gone off to Balbec-Plage, in Normandy. After, of course, much anguish about leaving his mother. I suppose it’s all meant to be very..." more
Saturday, March 12, 2016 7:10:32 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Romanticism:
Lizzie said, "First week of January, 2011, must have been quiet, for I made wonderful progress in Proust, reading whom is like watching a glacier. Things move too slowly to notice changes over short periods of time (or just a few pages) — you need great..." more
Friday, March 11, 2016 5:58:23 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled This’ll make you laugh:
Lizzie said, "Remember my reader who commented that one must reread Proust? I wonder if that was a subtle curse. Judge for yourself as you read the next update. Within a Budding Grove, pp. 406-416 Mathilde Bonaparte, courtesy Wikipedia So, as I was plodding..." more
Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:24:54 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled “Tell Sparta” people:
Lizzie said, "There’s something about December afternoons, with the days shortening and chill winds or damp rain pressing against my windows — ideal napping weather. This post dates from early December 2010, with big family holidays nearing. But now..." more
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 6:30:37 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Proust, sort of, a compendium of posts:
Lizzie said, "Interspersed with my summaries of and reactions to Proust’s novels are a few posts on related topics, highlights of which I’ve excerpted and combined below. It amazed me at the time how Proust-related books and articles would fall into..." more
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 6:29:23 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Proust cont’d.:
Lizzie said, "This post’s title was “Per viam rectam”, which I explain at the end. The post is dated October 29, 2010, just before I wrote the first draft of what became Kenning Magic. Make of that what you will. Within a Budding Grove, pp...." more
Monday, March 7, 2016 8:57:03 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Reprieved (another Proust update)!:
Lizzie said, "I’m going to have to do something about the search function on my other blog, because I’ve just found several additional Proust posts. I knew something was strange when Update #9 took me only to p. 344, yet when I had stopped reading..." more
Friday, March 4, 2016 7:40:58 PM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Remembrance of Proust #9:
Lizzie said, "This is the last of my Proust posts from 2010. After this, it’s sauve qui peut! Within a Budding Grove, pp. 326-344 Allee Marcel’s musings on the Bois de Boulogne, at the end of Swann’s Way, made me want to hop on a plane and..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Remembrance of Proust #3:
Lizzie said, "I’m starting to worry that these posts won’t be enough to ease me back into the story when I rejoin it in just a few weeks. Even in 30 pages, only a little bit happens, but so much is there to be pondered. Imagine, if you will, an atom:..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Remembrance of Proust #4:
Lizzie said, "No, I haven’t given up on this. I’ve been finishing up some other tasks, in a metaphorical desk clearance before spring term begins. Roger Shattuck, in his helpful guide, Proust’s Way, advises us to “read with a kind of..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled This and that and some other things:
Lizzie said, "For the past 3 weeks, it hasn’t been Radio WTWP (wall-to-wall Proust, with a tip of the hat to Prof. Peter Schickele) on my reading shelf. Here’s some other stuff I’ve been clearing out: Desmond Seward’s The Demon’s..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Remembrance of Proust #5:
Lizzie said, "In Proust’s Way, Roger Shattuck includes a chapter on “How to Read a Roman-Fleuve¹”. Shattuck points to Proust’s style as purposefully constructed to slow a reader down: “His sentences move through long spirals that..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled D.O.R.:
Lizzie said, "ESTABLISHING SHOT of road curving ahead through woods, late autumn with few leaves left on branches. Some piles of leaves beside road, wind scatters three or four across road. Day. OVERLAY, typed out one digit at a time: 11:15 A.M. CAMERA PAN to:..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Temporary obsession: AR:
Lizzie said, "My latest obsession started two months ago with Christina Hardyment’s Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint’s Trunk, an excellent study of the sources, both geographic and human, for his famous books, with a satisfying number of illustrations..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Whimsical but palatable:
Lizzie said, "As reward for your patience reading my longer posts, here’s a short one: Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011) 12-year-old September is whisked away to Fairyland by the Green Wind..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Remembrance of Proust #6:
Lizzie said, "Poor Swann. But also poor Odette. Marcel shows no mercy in what he writes about her, thereby revealing his own snobbery. I already know that the Swann-Odette arc will repeat itself with Marcel and … but I won’t give that away yet. pp...." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Remembrance of Proust #7:
Lizzie said, "August 2010 was a full month for me, for I was returning to work after a year’s sabbatical. This post was originally dated 20 August, a week before the start of classes, which may explain why I’d read only 12 pages. Of course, there..." more
Monday, February 22, 2016 6:33:22 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Remembrance of Proust #8:
Lizzie said, "I don’t know whether to be encouraged or dismayed that it took me 8 weeks to read a bit over 300 pages, an average of about 36 pages a week. Someone recently pointed out that I’d do better with a 6-volume edition — larger type,..." more
Friday, March 25, 2016 7:32:16 AM
Lizzie Ross wrote a blog post titled Bigamous reading:
Lizzie said, "When I haven’t the energy to read Proust, I read something else. In that respect, I’m no different from anyone else. But the other day my daughter commented on how strange it was that I was sitting on the couch reading one book while..." more