I am sure if I think about it I have many reading foibles (not to mention other foibles) – actually, I just love the word FOIBLE.
So what foible is this? I always like to keep some work of a dead writer unread, to know I have something fresh ahead. Only last year I finally read F Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Beautiful and the Damned’ – it was the novel I was holding back on. Don’t panic (well I won’t) – I still have a number of his short stories that I haven’t read.
I have some essays, poetry and letters still of Oscar Wilde’s and loads and loads of Dickens, a little of George Eliot, 2 Virginia Woolf novels, and thankfully many of her essays and letters. That is just a small example from the dead writers I admire, I don’t want this to become a list!
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I understand that foible but in some instances you just can't hold back. I absolutely had to read everything Barbara Pym wrote, for example. The lovely thing about Woolf is that you can hold back on the letters but read all the novels.
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