{"id":7264,"date":"2007-11-19T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:26:13","slug":"speaking-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7264","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"

— finished Bleak House<\/a>\"\"<\/i> yesterday morning. My God! What a book!<\/p>\n

— started and finished The Road<\/a>\"\"<\/i> yesterday. Could not put it down. What a horrifying story. Scary, too: there were 2 moments in particular when I literally gasped out loud in terror.<\/p>\n

— had very bad dreams last night. I blame Cormac McCarthy. Michael was a big part of one of the dreams. He feels very far away to me right now. The Road<\/i> made me feel almost unbearably lonely.<\/p>\n

— I think I’m going to move on to Anne Enright’s The Gathering<\/a>\"\"<\/i> next. (Allison and I, on Saturday, went to the bookstore across from her apartment – one of my favorites in the city. We both bought 3 books – it’s been a while since I bought a new book! I bought The Road<\/i> which I read in one day, in one sitting, practically. Also the Schickel critical biography of Elia Kazan which I’m psyched about (Schickel is great – he wrote the critical study of Cary Grant that I have quoted from on the blog ad nauseum). And then I bought The Gathering<\/i> which just won the Booker. I’ve been mentioning her here and there as well, she fascinates me. I don’t know – The Road<\/i> was so intense and so depressing that I am hesitating to pick up The Gathering<\/i> at this moment in time.<\/p>\n

— Oh, and I saw The Hoax<\/i> last night – the movie about Clifford Irving<\/a>, the dude who wrote the “authorized autobiography of Howard Hughes” without ever having met Hughes – he hoaxed everybody. FASCINATING. Richard Gere was fantastic – perfect part for him, and I’ll write more about that later. I really recommend the movie. I want to read Irving’s book now – The Hoax<\/a>\"\"<\/i> – not the one about Howard Hughes (which was never actually published, I don’t think – although they did do a print run of it) – but the one Irving wrote about how he made up the whole thing. Fascinating!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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