Time of the Child by Niall Williams
I am reading the library book pictured above when I'm not reading that other leviathan of a book. I am currently at 50% reading progress in both of them.
I was talking to a friend of mine about my slow progress in Moby Dick, whereupon she told me about her father's strategy of reading (and he read a lot). Apparently her father only read the dialog; saying that the plot could be determined just by reading the dialog. I personally like to read for things like setting and character development in the non-dialog prose, but I thought I would give his way a try this morning. Wouldn't you know that the three chapters I read this morning had no dialog at all, so I had to read all the non-dialog to determine what was going on. LOL
I asked her if her father had read Moby Dick, and she said she was sure he had, but probably before he started his dialog-only strategy. I replied that Moby Dick was quite possibly WHY he developed his dialog-only strategy! LOL
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