Delving Into Proust And More

How'd I go almost forty years without reading Proust? If Swann's Way is any indication, I'll soon be spending more to grow my library to include all of Proust's eight In Search Of Lost Time volumes. Penguin's just now releasing a newly revised series of translations, which I'm learning make quite a bit of difference.

Not content to rest with just one heady novel, I have four books in the works, and several more on deck. Intriguingly, the various texts I'm currently reading intersect one another in odd ways. Updike's The Early Stories makes several mentions of Proust (which is undoubtedly one of the reasons I felt spurred to crack the series open). The Bible For Dummies - whatever your faith, a good text with which to become familiar - meanwhile, is proving very enlightening, particulary as to the importance it places upon differences in translation (something I've also seen said about Proust).

If You Want To Walk On Water, You've Got To Get Out Of The Boat is an in-you-face evangelical read. I try to keep a few of these type a year on my list, as they're inspiring in their confidence and demeanor. Two years ago I delved deeply into John Eldredge's Wild At Heart and Waking The Dead. Interesting reading, but not for the faint of heart, as the man's serious about his faith. Plus, he drives a Jeep, so how bad could he be?

On another note, I was trying to describe the pleasure of gnawing through packs of Now and Laters to the family. Why describe it when they can try it? I surfed through several sites before finding a decent price for an assortment of the lime-, grape-, cherry- and orange-flavored candies. The box should be here this week.