Bloomsday sign up
It is 12:39 am, a time of the day when I am susceptible to ill-thought out enthusiasms, usually involving expensive credit card purchases. This time I can at least comfort myself that I won't be wailing "Why O why did I do that?!" in 55 days.
- The challenge is to at least start reading Ulysses or some other James Joyce book on June 16th.
- Ulysses was already on my reading list.
- Ulysses was LAST on my reading list (before I alphabetised it), for a reason. Everybody seems to fear it, and I figure there must be some kind of wisdom of crowds behind that. I tremble before it too.
- On the other hand, @o_delaisse is coordinating this readalong, and she is right about Clarissa, read it, it's fantastic.
- I am kind of sold on the idea of powering through Ulysses without trying to figure it all out. I just know it will take me way longer than a day! More like a week, minimum.
- Bloomsday the celebration doesn't mean anything to me. On the other hand, why not that day? June 16 would give me April to finish Clarissa, and six weeks of May+ June to read The Tale of Genji (seems reasonable), then go for option 2 on Bloomsday.
- All that sounds like a plan. Now to sleep