Tag: Clarissa

  • Not Finishing “Clarissa”/Summer Blahs/What I am Reading

    I am, according to Kindle, roughly 65% of the way through Clarissa, which is about 1000 pages or so in. At my present rate of speed, (again, according to Kindle) it would take me a further 24 hours or so to finish it. I read the first 800 pages or so with an enthusiasm I…

  • That’s a Long One/”Sironia, Texas”

    I have touched on this briefly during the nascent days of this blog, but my fascination with long form works continues unabated. A bit ago, I took a look at what are considered the longest novels in existence, and like most things, there’s a bit of a debate about it. There have been attempts to…