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

 

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