Glad you liked the link. Sometimes I’m hesitant to share links in case there’s something in the post that isn’t fitting. 🙂

So now I know not to pick up ’93. Extremely violent is definitely not my cup of tea.

I still haven’t tackled War and Peace. And I won’t even think of it yet. Still need to recover from Brothers K and Les Mis this year. ha. I find it curiously comforting that Wikipedia has a section on Hugo’s digressions. So it wasn’t just my imagination that he digressed multiple times. 🙂

Let me know what you think of the Tidying Up book when it does come in. It’s been motivating to me to start back with some serious decluttering. I haven’t actually begun yet, but at least I’m thinking about it. 😉 Step 1, right?

Thanks, June. Both my birthday and Thanksgiving celebrations were more than I could ask for. Hope you had a blessed day too.

I love this book gathering every month too. Hope you can get back into the swing of things soon enough. Seasons come and go; books can get pushed aside for more important living. They’ll stick around and wait for us when later comes.

I have to laugh about Ms PacMan. You didn’t know I was once quite a champion at that game! ha. Many moons and books (and wasted hours) ago. 🙂 Those two titles sound interesting! Always a great start.

Thanks. I had a wonderful birthday. And as usual, yes the book is more! Yay for books. 🙂

Dear Lisa

Thanks for the link! That’s very good!

Alas, the ’93 defeated me. It’s a shortish novel, and to the point, it was just extremely violent; incredibly violent. I had to bail out after a few chapters. I’ll go back to it sometime (I might even read Les Mis).

Les Mis sounds more like War and Peace, which broke off the story increasinlgy often for meditations on history (what kind of leader was Napoleon, why was Suvorov such a good general, etc.). Some of these meditations were um more interesting than others, but their presence had a very strange effect on my experience of the novel (or rather my experience of the novel’s world, the lives of its characters, etc.) and especially Tolstoy pulls a huge (profoundly disturbing) practical joke at the end of the novel which you just wouldn’t get if you’d been naughtily skipping all these history essays.

(I just noticed LM’s wikipedia page has a section on its “digressions”;)

David