Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
8/3: finishing
...Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. At 1100+ pages, it was a substantial undertaking to read it (I can't even imagine the project of writing it). And for me the feat was a long time in the making: one of my neighborhood friends growing up was named after the title character, and I remember trying to read it when I was younger, but it was beyond me. Chris decided to read it this summer and urged me to do the same. I'm not sure I loved the novel, but I'm glad I read it, I loved talking about it with Chris over the past few weeks, and I'm relieved to have returned to a scene of prior (or at least temporary) defeat and turned it into victory.
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