Pages read since last post: 314
Days reading Proust: 130 (16, 64, 29, 16, 5*)
Books read since last post: 2
Graham Swift, Last Orders
Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
I'm making sterling progress through this one, though I'm at a bit of a loss to explain why. Even by Proust's lofty standards this has been a remarkably uneventful volume. Actually, that's not strictly true, there have been several events of note e.g. Swann's death, Bergotte's death, Cottard's death (and mysterious resurrection due to poor editing), yet all are covered with uncharacteristic brevity. The majority of the 300 pages I've read so far have been occupied with general moping about Albertine's lesbianic tendencies or otherwise... with scant evidence to support this hypothesis. Still, as ever the language is a delight and having left just one week between volumes I seem to be riding "The Big Mo" a la Senator Obama. I intend to capitalise on this and press on through Fug with equal endeavour.
Briefly, Last Orders - excellent, and a worthy Booker winner (1996). Better than the enjoyable movie adaptation. TDBATB - OK... not especially profound, but short and certainly the best nictitated book I have ever read.