Reading Diary: Some Luck

[landingtree]

21/05/2023

Jane Smiley's Some Luck has the best baby POV I've run into. However I have mostly been reading my classmates' work recently. It's a good thing I wrote so much in this journal early; my reading sparsens. [For my course, we need to have at least twenty thousand words of reading diary by the start of August. I've already done this! One deadline that won't be stressful.]


29/05/2023

I'm enjoying Some Luck. The baby POV continues strong, from a succession of different babies. At a rate of one chapter per year, halfway through the book we've only covered sixteen years – not an unusual span of time for a novel to occupy itself with. I feel like I'm on a train gliding gently through a city I know, even though the train is going to keep going out through the suburbs into countryside I haven't seen before, as the events of these people's lives don't slow down but keep on rising and being moved on from, chapter by chapter, through this and two more books.

Comments

[sartorias]

The train image, interesting!