Books read since last post: Starter for Ten, David Nicholls; How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de BottonUnsurprisingly, the de Botton makes more sense having actually read some of ALRDTP. Not his finest hour - that would be the glorious Essays in Love - but enjoyable nevertheless, and worthwhile for the account of the single awkward meeting between Proust and Joyce alone, whereupon each denied any knowledge of the other's oeuvre.
The start date for Within a Budding Grove has been set provisionally for this coming Saturday (20th October). Coinciding, perhaps, with an English triumph in Paris of the rugby union variety. Our restart, however, remains at the mercy of the irksome industrial action by postal staff (postal workers seems an inappropriate term). M. Garrood will advise on Friday as to whether his copy of volume 2 has successfully negotiated the backlog.
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Friday 12:30 pm - no sign of more Proust. I fear we will have to postpone until next week. I will advise arrival time. However, without the shadow of Swann, I have read many fun and short books - a silver lining indeed.
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