It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

Last week I finished reading The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson. This is a memoir that pushes the boundaries of the memoir genre: sometimes stream-of-concious, sometimes scholarly/philosophical, sometimes standard memoir, and the whole book is composed of blocks of prose rather than your standard indented paragraph, some of which are tightly connected to the "paragraphs" surrounding and others that take leaps reminiscent of contemporary poetry. I enjoyed the book very much, though I think it will take more than one reading to really understand it.

This week I'm focusing on the Zadie Smith novel, On Beauty. I've been reading it for a couple of weeks now, and hope to finish it this week. It's on of these long, sprawling novels that includes exhaustive insights into each main character's psyche. I love this kind of book! It's also set on a college campus, which also attracts me. In these ways it feels rather similar to an Iris Murdoch novel.

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