What keeps you slogging through difficult language?
Zach's observations re: Ulysses had me want to through a question to the audience: even though books like Ulysses, most anything by Faulkner, and original Shakespeare, et al, are ostensibly written in English, I find those to be far more difficult to get into than…

Dense is the right word for this
I've been loving this book for the past few weeks, and I'm still in danger of not finishing in time for the book discussion. Why? Because I keep experiencing small (but strong, lingering) moments of clarity while deciphering the culture/language/history of the story. I finished the…