Welcome to Week 13, regarding matters that concern and pertain to this adventure and this memorable online reading group<\/i>.
\nAlmost caught up — got to about the halfway point in this week’s reading. Over the last week or two the thing I keep coming back to is the feeling that DQ is really living the dream. He’s not just a knight errant, standing up to lions, spelunking into the unknown, “brandish(ing) his lance with so much strength and dexterity that he filled all who did not know him with fear” — but even better, he’s become a knight errant of legend, literally a character in a book, which mebbe was his real dream all along.
\nLike I think just about everyone on the ‘march, I’m finding Part II much more compelling and flat out fun than Part I. Besides all the neat meta moments, even the language has become more lively — I find myself underlining some cool phrase on just about every page. Looking forward to seeing where this all lands.
\nNext Wednesday: <\/b> Let’s meet up at the end of Chapter XXXV (696 Grossman) where I’m thrilled to report that “there really was nothing that gave them greater pleasure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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