In Which Madame de Pompadour Owes Her Life to Doctor Who
My online friend Misty (Hi, Misty!) introduced me to DailyLit a week or so ago, and since then I’ve been soaking up Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, delivered via RSS feed in easily digestible chunks to my Google Reader inbox every morning. This is obviously a sign of things to come: books will soon go the way of the dodo and everyone will read only ebooks or e-audiobooks. Libraries will be a thing of the past, but I won’t mind, or even notice, because I will be in my living room, taking in information through a cannula wired into my skull. NO ONE WILL EVER LEAVE THEIR HOUSE AGAIN.
Well, I don’t really believe that. But DailyLit is still a nice way to fit classic, open-domain literature into my day. I can even read it on my phone, on the go. (Maybe that cannula really isn’t that far off after all.) Thanks, Misty!
I just watched the best Doctor Who ever, where the Doctor inadvertently becomes Madame de Pompadour’s lifelong protector, secret friend and secret love, all over the course of a single episode. It was fantastic. I think David Tennant is a fine Doctor after all, despite my initial nostalgia for Christopher Eccleston, and the second series is actually better than the first. I know, it sounds impossible! But it’s true.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 6:42 pm
You are an evil person. Like I needed another source of RSS feeds.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
You speak the truth. But at least these are once-a-day feeds, which is a small commitment compared to, say, a news site, or a gossip site, or…
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 am
Isn’t it nice? My sister and I are doing a book club with “Pride and Prejudice” in which we read only what they send us for a week, and then we discuss it via phone call at the end of the week.
And kudos to whomever did the editing for “Little Women” for DailyLit. They have broken the segments up into great cliff-hangers.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 am
Little Women as an episodic cliffhanger/thriller? I think I found another book I need to subscribe to!
December 31st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
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