Welcome to Litsy!

Reviewing the full trilogy: this is a brutal journey that I don‘t necessarily recommend taking on all at once (ie what I did). Farrell is going for realism and that means lots of misogyny and racism going around this Irish Catholic community between about 1915 and 1932. You really have to trust that he doesn‘t share his characters‘ opinions. The value here is in showing that things have been bad and divided before. You probably won‘t like Studs.

First hour of the #reversereadathon is coming to an end and I‘ve only read 20 pages of The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. But there‘s more to come. Off to take a quick break to post on my blog and comment on some Litsy posts.

Super slow start to #24in48! Argh!

Hope the second part of today is more productive than the first.

Public library didn‘t have the next #modernlibrarytop100 book on my list, so I made a trip to the university library.