READING LIST
MARY MANNING
After seeing Mary Manning's website, I knew I wanted to get her summer reading list. In between taking her quiet, spacious photographs, she kindly sent it along. I loved her honesty in admitting to me that "Joyce is on the list every summer and I never make it happen". I know the feeling. For me, it's a copy on my shelves of "Swann's Way" with the bookmark at page 50. This is the summer for you, Mary!
I finally made it through Ulysses last fall after years of failed attempts. One chapter a week (excepting the Circe episode; you might want two weeks for that) and a travelling companion reading it at the same pace is helpful. (Although unsolicited advice of this sort rarely proves useful.) Either way, it's truly a life changing book.
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