Good morning, all! I'm quite puzzled over the strange posting count yesteray; when I signed off on the East Coast it was 11 pm, which is 8:00 PST, and we were on page 8! I was certain I'd get up this morning and find one or two more pages to read through. So what happened? Did my Dear Friend BK's gallop off to his reading let the troops wander in the wilderness? Most unsettling, I fear.
My allergies/cold continue to make me unhappy and uncomfortable, I have to find something new to read, but after the Kritzer saga, what? Maybe the new mystery about the young Edgar Allen Poe, AN UNPARDONABLE CRIME. I'll take it with me today and see how I like it
My comments about Kritzer and Copperfield have me wondering, did the USA ever produce a writer of popular fiction as good as Charles Dickens? He's the author I feel the Kritzer books are closest to, but just as Dickens' field of writing is probably Richardson, Fielding, Bronte, Austen, Thackeray, and current writers like Willkie Collins, Bruce has another century on him, so there's some Ray Bradbury in Kritzer's literary world, but who else?
Worst casting for SOUTH PACIFIC? I feel it's already been done on tv with the world's oldest Nelie Forbush and on discs with the when-I-sing-pop-music-I-listen-to-Streisand Kiri (I know; I've been there).