i read night so you don’t have to

Night by Etel Adnan (September 2017)

Despite being just sixty-four pages, I read this book over a number of nights days. Each time I got started, I renewed the feeling of having just missed the point. I would stop after a few pages and resolve to try again later when I was in a better frame of mind to absorb the work. I repeated this process several times. After one such time, I looked at the next page and saw nothing. The book, I realized, was over.

My apologies, reader, but sometimes I just don’t have my fastball.

Those curious about this book and seeking a thoughtful reflection should follow this link to a post about Night from Brain Pickings. Surely, if someone with a much sharper head on her shoulders could write such a post about this book, it must have some deeper value. It just didn’t click for me, I guess.

Tim

Footnotes / ongoing blubbering / is that Moya?

0. A distracting title?

I’m sure at least one reader saw the title of today’s post and thought I was going to write about Eli Weisel’s famous account of his experiences as a Holocaust victim. Nope…

My apologies to anyone fooled by the title of this post.

0a. So, you read a book but provided no review and your only ‘footnote’ is really an endnote and it's pointless anyway since it just says the title of the post was probably misleading which is what labelling an endnote a 'footnote' also is and so is this the worst TOA post of all time, I would certainly think so, except for all that other rubbish I've seen around these parts...

As all baseball players know, when you don't have your fastball, it might be a good idea to hit the showers a little early.

Plus, who could argue with this post being the official 'worst TOA post ever'???

See you tomorrow!