Finished: Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner). Another long, hard Faulkner read, but worth it in the end. I think I'm done with Faulkner for a while though. Some day I might still want to read As I Lay Dying, but oh my gosh, he is so hard to read, with so many points of view that jump around in time! I read this one because I really grew to love the tragic character of Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury, and Quentin was one of the narrators of this story. Anyway...another tale of the tragic, misguided, complicated, ignorant, noble south.

I think the only chuckle I got in the book was the description of this mother who was so anxious to plan her daughter's wedding before the betrothed had even proposed:

"Ellen at the absolute halcyon of her butterfly's summer and now with the added charm of gracious and graceful voluntary surrendering of youth to her blood's and sex's successor, that concurrent attitude and behavior with the engagement's span with which mothers who want to can almost make themselves the brides of their daughters' weddings."

On to something lighter, I think. :-)