What are you planning to read during the winter break?
I usually have some ambitious plan up my proverbial sleeve. One year I read One Hundred Years of Solitude, which remains a favorite novel of mine. It just so happens that I had a broken leg at the time. That figures into the narrative in ways I can’t explain exactly.
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Over winter break I intend to read a book on how lesbians began the women’s rights movement (the title escapes me at the moment,) my lovely Practical English Handbook (I’m going back to grad school in a year to get my MA in writing so I’m beefing up now,) and I’ll probably pick up something Winterson off of my ever-expanding bookshelves. I’m pretty ambitious about my holiday reading; it keeps me sane for the times when I can’t read.
I need ideas! I’ve been reading a biography of Christina, Queen of Sweden, and I need a good, chunky novel. I’ve never read A Hundred years of Solitude. Maybe I’ll try that.
I have insane reading habits that come with doing scholarship (like reading about twenty books at once), but one book that will take up big chunks of time is Elizabeth Friedmann’s biography, A Mannered Grace: The Life of Laura (Riding) Jackson. I’ve already started it. It’s a rich, sympathetic, factually correcting account of a life much abused in print by scholars, filial biographers with an axe to grind, former colleagues, and others who just throw some poison at the subject for the helluvit. Whether it will ultimately correct…so one turns the page.
I would like to invite anyone interested in the facts about Laura [Riding] Jackson’s life and work to correspond with me. My letters to her, written in the late ‘eighties are kept at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where I now live. Mrs. Jackson was a magnanimous force in American literature, a complete original, approachable and yet sobering. The Hollywood film, Poetic Unreason, due out this year, is heavily underwritten by the Robert Graves family, and it most likely will portray her life in 1929 with him without factual input concerning her true nature. I welcome correspondence about this subject. Write to me at alanrobison999@yahoo.com
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