Dubliners

My book recomendation of the week is definately Dubliners by James Joyce. Okay so i'm working on my thesis for my english capstone course, Literary Criticism. I wanted to choose a known name in writing to find adequate sources. So I was thinking business more than pleasure when I picked up this novelty. However, I have thoroughly enjoyed the pages that have turned. There is a significance in reading an Irish man's works too because I recieved this book from an Irish man when I was in Wales. You see we met David tracting one typically rainy morning and desired to teach him the gospel. However we soon found David very unfortunetly wasn't very interested in listening as he referred to himself as "our favorite local athiest" so our acquintance was cut short due to his stubbornness (and that he really didn't understand the 'missionaries are celibate' rule) but he left me with this gift he purchased from WH Smith on high street Carmarthen Wales. I told him I couldn't quite read it yet, but promised him that I would and had wanted to read James Joyce anyways. So there it sat in my suit case for another 15 months until it was placed upon my shelf two months ago. And then excitingly enough was picked up last week and has been following me around the house, to the beach, and in my thoughts. It is a collection of short stories and the only downfall to what i've read thus far is that they are short stories. Every turn to a page that is followed by ghost letters under the last black type saddens me because I want more of the story. His senses are so exquisitely image invoking that a novel could be written upon each 3-4 page story. Perhaps my excitement is due to my love of the British Isles, however I pass the love of the mother land's neighbor (the Irish) on with one of their greatest writers, James Joyce. if you like short stories than pick it up love.