read Henry James

Starting small on this one “Turn of the Screw” :) Its starting off to be kind of scary.

I Love Henry James, I hate movie adaptations of his work, and I especially hate when they star Nicole Kidman. I loved Washington Square though, they got that pretty right…

I’ve read ‘The Wings of the Dove’ and ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and loved them both. He has what a writing teacher of mine calls a typically feminine style (having nothing to do with the gender of the author). It’s long and expressive. Great work.

But he really irritated me for some reason!

begun in a tent by lantern light on a vacation filled with intense friendships and lots of beer. Not the best setting for beginning a book with 2 forwards and an introduction, but a memorable one. So far I’ve read a lot of biography of James which was an education in itself, but not much of James’s own words. More to come.

Penguin classics that is. “The Ambassadors” and “The Portrait of a Lady.” I know these are the most popular of James’s work but figured I ought to start somewhere. I have a full schedule of reading ahead as I’ve got Michael Cunningham’s “Specimen Days” waiting as well.