February 7, 2006 @ 02:44
· Filed under Culture, R&R, Language
- I’ve dropped The Brothers Karamazov, at least for the time being. Two hundred pages in and I still didn’t really care about any of the characters. I’ve started Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell instead, and it is fantastic! She spells things in the Georgian fashion (scisars, connexion, shewn, chuse, shoking), it’s really funny and is written like a period novel would be (this helps the funny immeasurably), she editorializes, and the plot has really drawn me in. I should have bought this in England when I saw it all over the place in 2004, but I didn’t. Anyway, I am quite sure I’ll finish this one.
- I am really excited about Tristram Shandy, which I heard about from this rave on Slate, but it won’t open in San Francisco for another two weeks. :-( I really want to read the book, too, but this is an adaptation in the mold of Adaptation. Meaning, I don’t think too much will be given away by the film.
- I got my taxes done in 3 hours tonight with H&R Block. $20 later, I have a ~$150 combined federal/state refund. Taxes really aren’t that hard with the online application, which I did last year as well. It’s nice to be done, and it will be nice to get two checks in the mail. :-)
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