I picked up Baltasar and Blimunda somewhat randomly a few days ago--thinking, well, I really have meant to read more Saramago at some point--and it caI picked up Baltasar and Blimunda somewhat randomly a few days ago--thinking, well, I really have meant to read more Saramago at some point--and it captivated me from the first sentence, in a way I haven't felt for a few months at least--and now, at this moment that I'm writing this, I'm feeling that the rapt and unwavering and near-total attention I've showered on extremely newly published literary fiction releases, over the last many years of my reading life, is, maybe, misplaced, because let's face it if you're trying to read only new stuff it means that a lot of what you're reading is probably not going to be literature for the ages--
So maybe I'm going to be catching up on some things written not-this-year for a while.
Or maybe it's not going to last very long before I come back to contemporary fiction, like the way I get a hankering for marmite now and then and then I'm done with it....more
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