And again, there’s a link there to the work of Shared Reading.
Two: there’s a lot in this book about self-knowledge and knowing others – both the strive for and the impossibility of both of those things. It was an interesting exercise in watching myself try at something, get bored or frustrated at times, interspersed with pay-off moments of total recognition and awe. So there was a kind of quid pro quo in me tackling this strange book full of sea-faring and historical terms and references. One: in this job, where you read for work all the time, it felt good to read something disconnected from modern life, complicated and occasionally incomprehensible – because it is, after all, sort of what we ask the people who come to our groups to do (or, that’s how some see it, at least). I still think his sentences are like that…but I’m making it my recommended read in any case, for the following reasons: I didn’t really want to read Lord Jim I was told to by someone, for work, and I was not that up for it to be honest, as I’ve always found Conradalmost deliberately difficult, with hugely long sentences that you read and then think, ‘ Sorry, what?’. This week our read comes on recommendation from Fiona, a Reader Leader in our Criminal Justice team.
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