solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. share what you are reading with the whimsey project.

a portion of the chapter on narratives in clifton fadiman's, the lifetime reading plan, was today's reading.  i didn't get super far before falling asleep on the couch, however, i read about bunyan, defoe, swift and sterne and fielding. fadiman's take on defoe's robinson crusoe is different than anything i had ever read about sterne's narrative, tristram shandy.  fadiman posits that shandy is written with psychological theory as it's guiding premise.  he calls defoe's crusoe a stick. intriguing.

happy mother's day!