What I have been reading while I have been waiting
Last week I spent quite a bit of time waiting in the surgeon's office, and then waiting for the ultrasound techinician, then waiting for the surgeon's office to return my calls, and now waiting to get another appointment with the surgeon. Most of this waiting has been painfully alone, without Myles for company, as he was at his grandparents' since Tuesday night. I brought him home last night. He'll be back up there if I do get surgery, which even if it is non-emergency elective, I need to get it done before I go to China.
So, while I have been waiting and waiting, I have been reading Viper's Tangle by Francios Mauriac. It's the second book I've read out of the Loyola Classics series, reprints of great Catholic fiction. The first I read was In This House of Brede (which I blogged about here). As I said then, that book is a great alternative to books like Ya-Ya Sisterhood in that it is actually a well-written novel. It was also, uh--how to say this, polite. Even though Brede touches on a lot of worldly ugliness, it never strays into territory where you might be afraid to give this book to your grandmother, which I did.
Viper's Tangle is a little different from Brede. I expected with the Loyola Imprint that it would be more of the same polite writing. I am glad I was wrong. The narrator is one of those beastly and brutal men that somehow I am completely bowled over by in literature (but thankfully never in real life). Jansenism, heresy it may be, makes for great literature, I must say.
I'm only about a third of the way through, so I'll let you know if I still feel this way as I progress. If anyone else has read it (LC?), let me know if I am off base or should brace myself for the hooker with the heart of gold at the end.
So, while I have been waiting and waiting, I have been reading Viper's Tangle by Francios Mauriac. It's the second book I've read out of the Loyola Classics series, reprints of great Catholic fiction. The first I read was In This House of Brede (which I blogged about here). As I said then, that book is a great alternative to books like Ya-Ya Sisterhood in that it is actually a well-written novel. It was also, uh--how to say this, polite. Even though Brede touches on a lot of worldly ugliness, it never strays into territory where you might be afraid to give this book to your grandmother, which I did.
Viper's Tangle is a little different from Brede. I expected with the Loyola Imprint that it would be more of the same polite writing. I am glad I was wrong. The narrator is one of those beastly and brutal men that somehow I am completely bowled over by in literature (but thankfully never in real life). Jansenism, heresy it may be, makes for great literature, I must say.
I'm only about a third of the way through, so I'll let you know if I still feel this way as I progress. If anyone else has read it (LC?), let me know if I am off base or should brace myself for the hooker with the heart of gold at the end.
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