The newsletter post that should have gone out today will, I’m afraid, be delayed by a week. My apologies. As I said at the end of the previous post, today’s should have been about Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. The reason for the delay is that I haven’t finished rereading it yet; indeed, I’m only about halfway through. I’d forgotten how long it is (800 pages). There’s no doubt, too, that I’m a slower reader than I was in 1995, which is the last time I read it. That’s partly the result of deteriorating eyesight — I’m expecting to have cataract surgery later this year — and partly because there are so many more distractions now — I didn’t have internet access in 1995.
I considered swapping around my Tom Jones post with the one I intend to follow it with (about Daphne du Maurier’s novel The Scapegoat) but I preferred not to break off from reading Fielding’s novel and decided instead to stretch the interval between the previous post and this one to three weeks instead of two.
In the meantime, here are two lists of previous posts, where you might find something you missed first time around or that you’d like to reread.
- the twelve authors whose work I’ve written about most often; and
- all the previous posts in Talk about books, sorted alphabetically by author’s forename.
Till next week, and sorry again for the delay.