So I'm at work for another Saturday doing security work - and a long Saturday at that. I've been here from nine this morning, and will be here until nine-thirty this evening. And I'll be back tomorrow. The wonderful thing is - I've already finished two books, and have another 2 to go.
This morning I read "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. Definately an excellent book - though I found it irredeemably sad. And surprising -I didn't think that Hemingway was religious in any way, shape or form, yet his Christ-like symbolism in the book was so prevelent. I really liked it - you can take it in so many ways, and I'm sure if I read it 10 years from now I'll derive something completely different. An excellent book. Books about fishing usually are.
And just now I finished Kurt Vonnegut's "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater". What an excellent book! Social commentary, political commentary (because sometimes they're seperate) and comedy all rolled into one. What I love is that Vonnegut brings in other characters from other novels, even objects from other novels - it makes it almost like a treasure hunt reading the books. I really enjoyed it. It's my 3rd Vonnegut book - I have a feeling I'll be reading quite a few more.
Something strange - in "The Old Man and the Sea", the fisherman speaks briefly of "Portugese man-o-war's" (from what I gather, something like a jellyfish, painful in its sting). In "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater", they also get a mention. Thought it was odd that the two books that I would read today would both have such an obscure reference in them. Literary serendipity.
Only 4 1/2 hours left of work. I'm delving into "The Icarus Girl" by Helen Oyeyemi. Don't you just feel like you haven't done a whole lot when a 20 year old is beating you to the punch with a prize winning novel?
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