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comment by AnSionnachRua
AnSionnachRua  ·  2996 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: February 8th: What are you reading this week?

I'm still very slowly chewing through Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. I'm currently at around 650 pages in, or just over a quarter of the novel read.

I'm not very good at talking about books, but one thing I do love about Proust is his ability to almost exhaustively showcase the mental processes going on in the narrator's mind; you get several pages just talking about how he feels uncomfortable about talking to a girl. And he picks up on the tiniest mannerisms to give you insight into a person's character.