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BelleZora · 04-15-2015, 11:37 AM

Thanks for the link, fantasyfan. Interesting reading, indeed.

Several weeks ago, on the day that I finished The Master, I was in the desert town of Tecopa, California and had found wifi at the closed Community Center. So I sat on the steps in a wind storm balancing my computer on my knee, blinking sand away, while composing several paragraphs for this thread. Just as I was ready to hit 'post reply' it all disappeared. And that was the end of that.

But the book sent me down a happy path. Many years ago, during a period of infatuation with William James, I gave up on Henry James. But I am giving him another go. Although I wasn't greatly impressed with The Turn of the Screw, I am reading The Golden Bowl, thanks to Bookworm_girl's link to the Wall Street Journal's book club. A WSJ Facebook post clued me in to all that was going on in the first meeting of the Prince and Charlotte. I would have missed it, and that post provided the key for me to enjoy James. Every word mattered. I always feel slightly sad when reading outside the mystery genre, but suddenly clues abounded. This story is going somewhere interesting (plot! - or close enough) if only I pay close attention.

Now A Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors are near the top of my TBR.

Thanks to the literary book club, I now love Henry James references and found this blog post to be hilarious: How to Tell if You are in a Henry James Novel

04-15-2015, 11:37 AM	#39
BelleZora Wizard Posts: 1,442 Karma: 25151986 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Seattle, US Device: Paperwhite 5, Kobo Libra Colour, Pocketbook Verse Pro Color	Thanks for the link, fantasyfan. Interesting reading, indeed. Several weeks ago, on the day that I finished The Master, I was in the desert town of Tecopa, California and had found wifi at the closed Community Center. So I sat on the steps in a wind storm balancing my computer on my knee, blinking sand away, while composing several paragraphs for this thread. Just as I was ready to hit 'post reply' it all disappeared. And that was the end of that. But the book sent me down a happy path. Many years ago, during a period of infatuation with William James, I gave up on Henry James. But I am giving him another go. Although I wasn't greatly impressed with The Turn of the Screw, I am reading The Golden Bowl, thanks to Bookworm_girl's link to the Wall Street Journal's book club. A WSJ Facebook post clued me in to all that was going on in the first meeting of the Prince and Charlotte. I would have missed it, and that post provided the key for me to enjoy James. Every word mattered. I always feel slightly sad when reading outside the mystery genre, but suddenly clues abounded. This story is going somewhere interesting (plot! - or close enough) if only I pay close attention. Now A Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors are near the top of my TBR. Thanks to the literary book club, I now love Henry James references and found this blog post to be hilarious: How to Tell if You are in a Henry James Novel Last edited by BelleZora; 04-15-2015 at 12:01 PM.