I guess I'll just lay out this situation as it lies on paper. Maybe just sticking to memory? Since finishing Letting Go, I've been on Serotonin. It's about a man who works in agriculture. He goes through all the women he's been with. He bystands as his blue-collar counterparts fade in an era of free trade. It's easy to read, though I wish it were more about the meds. I started The Burnout Society, which has been uncommonly pleasant. I may get into theory a little--though I'm not sure if there's a place where that will take me to. I started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo again. I see why I liked it so much before, but its tricks don't work as well now. I guess I shouldn't be so surprised a genre piece loses weight once the narrative tension falls away. Every once in a while I end up reading some book on my phone in some waiting office. The most recent was A Scanner Darkly, which has the familiar charm of the just-opened book that ends up a moderate chore following the commitments made in its honeymoon period. I still read a paragraph sometimes from The Musical Brain. A Dance with Dragons slowly continues, though its charm has faded.
Where do I plan to go from here? Is there some place I can go where the books are better? I think I'll probably pick up When She Was Good within a year. Maybe I'll get into some nonfiction book about the CIA. I'll get back on the Modiano wagon soon.
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