Comments on: “Rat Girl” by Kristin Hersh http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5691 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Fri, 22 May 2026 03:11:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5691&cpage=1#comment-41255 girldetective Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:10:23 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5691#comment-41255 Jennifer, sorry to have to close comments but if I didn't, the spam would take over and sometimes it almost does that anyway. About a group reading of IJ. I'm thinking of leading an Infinite Summer next year, in the summer solstice-autumn equinox form it's been done in before and that got me to read it for the first time. When I do, it'll push me to read both the Ghost Story book, and the Lipsky book which I bought but never read and is the one being turned into a movie. And I'm ashamed to admit I've actually read little else by DFW, and always mean to read A Supposedly Fun Thing. Jennifer, sorry to have to close comments but if I didn’t, the spam would take over and sometimes it almost does that anyway.

About a group reading of IJ. I’m thinking of leading an Infinite Summer next year, in the summer solstice-autumn equinox form it’s been done in before and that got me to read it for the first time. When I do, it’ll push me to read both the Ghost Story book, and the Lipsky book which I bought but never read and is the one being turned into a movie. And I’m ashamed to admit I’ve actually read little else by DFW, and always mean to read A Supposedly Fun Thing.

]]> By: Jennifer Reese http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5691&cpage=1#comment-41251 Jennifer Reese Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:33:21 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5691#comment-41251 I'm sorry to continue our short conversation (about Lit) on this post, but the comments are closed on Lit. I can't remember why I ended up disliking DFW after the biography, but I was lying on the bed in this bad hotel in New York City in the middle of the night, closed the book, thought, shoot, that just took all the air out of my enthusiasm for DFW. I'm sure he was a lovely person if you actually knew him. Having forgotten the details of my disillusionment, I'd now be into trying to read Infinite Jest with a group. I was trying to get my friend to do a Proust reading together, but she's so far found the offer resistible. I'm not currently in a book group, but it's been great reading things concurrently with this one friend. I did read Dry. Yikes. I’m sorry to continue our short conversation (about Lit) on this post, but the comments are closed on Lit. I can’t remember why I ended up disliking DFW after the biography, but I was lying on the bed in this bad hotel in New York City in the middle of the night, closed the book, thought, shoot, that just took all the air out of my enthusiasm for DFW. I’m sure he was a lovely person if you actually knew him. Having forgotten the details of my disillusionment, I’d now be into trying to read Infinite Jest with a group. I was trying to get my friend to do a Proust reading together, but she’s so far found the offer resistible. I’m not currently in a book group, but it’s been great reading things concurrently with this one friend.
I did read Dry. Yikes.

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