This convo was like a banquet and I was starving! As a person obsessed with reading, I loved it.
I really related to:
“For me it doesn’t come down to being entertained — although I don’t think one can divorce the sense of being entertained from any media we take part in, because it’s so natural for the human soul, the human being, to want to enjoy something, to have that sense of relishing the taste. But there’s something about: does it feel like a voice I want to listen to?”
I know a writer who says her entire purpose as a writer is to entertain and as a writer, that grates on me. It’s not mine also as you said, it’s part of it. I mean we wouldn’t read if we weren’t entertained by reading but the way entertainment is so corrupted today, I hate the term. Everything is designed “to entertain.”
But I digress. I’ll save this to reread (because yes to Nabokov) and for the books mentioned. Delicious!
So much to think about here! Rereading is important to me. I have a couple books I read regularly, and sometimes I get a French translation of a title just to reread in a different way via the translation.
This convo was like a banquet and I was starving! As a person obsessed with reading, I loved it.
I really related to:
“For me it doesn’t come down to being entertained — although I don’t think one can divorce the sense of being entertained from any media we take part in, because it’s so natural for the human soul, the human being, to want to enjoy something, to have that sense of relishing the taste. But there’s something about: does it feel like a voice I want to listen to?”
I know a writer who says her entire purpose as a writer is to entertain and as a writer, that grates on me. It’s not mine also as you said, it’s part of it. I mean we wouldn’t read if we weren’t entertained by reading but the way entertainment is so corrupted today, I hate the term. Everything is designed “to entertain.”
But I digress. I’ll save this to reread (because yes to Nabokov) and for the books mentioned. Delicious!
So much to think about here! Rereading is important to me. I have a couple books I read regularly, and sometimes I get a French translation of a title just to reread in a different way via the translation.
Always trying to convince my book club members who can read in two languages to do this! It’s fascinating.