Here is the post for any and all discussions about passages from January 15 – 21, 1968!
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I am still reading!
I am as well, although I do find the story hard to follow at times since I’ve read so much else since character X / incident Y last occurred in my reading (even when the entries are consecutive days).
I am for example completely lost as to the origin of the court case in Jerichow – can anyone explain what that is all about?
Lisbeth overheard a conversation that is very bad for one of the men discussed, but I can’t work out much more than that.
OK not just me then. The book has this sort of tone where it is referring to things as if the reader already knows about them (e.g. the NYT bits are always more a commentary as if you’ve read it yourself) that I find a bit grating, particularly when this reader at least is often completely lost.
No, not just you, but I don’t find it grating. I have changed how I am reading – rather than reading every day I am now catching up between other books that I read, so it’s approximately weekly. The daily reading was better for trying to figure things out. The way I am doing it now, I am not taking the time to suss out every day’s entry. When I was reading the other way, while simultaneously reading other books, they all seemed to get a little mixed in. For example, Siri Hustvedt’s Memories of the Future was mainly set on Riverside Drive. It seems like everything I was reading had some similarity to Anniversaries when I was reading concurrently.
Just a note – I don’t think the issues I have had posting were down to Android after all. I just had similar with the comment above (using desktop) whereby the Post Comment button did nothing, so I copied my text and re-entered the website.
I am enjoying the writing of the diary entries that started on January 19. First, we have an ironic ongoing accounting of the NYT reporting of Eartha Kitt’s criticism of the Vietnam war to Lady Bird Johnson (worth googling if you don’t know the details,) followed by the wonderfully crafted story of Gesine in the water butt. This has been one of my favorite entries so far. It is worth examining on a second and third read. The subsequent entry is of Semig’s departure and continuing into next week’s reads, we have more interesting entries contrasted with the Eartha Kittry. story. What wonderful writing and translating!