Sunday, March 23, 2008

Little, Big

I just finished the novel Little, Big by John Crowley.
I originally heard of it while reading the Wikipedia article
on Harold Bloom. It's a beautiful book, with language
as rich as anything I've read. I tend to mark particularly
good passages in books with those little postit flags, a practice
I highly recommend, as it doesn't damage the book. I was so surprised at much
of the prose that I have about 40 within the
first 200 pages. I noticed with delight that Crowley himself has
a similar practice.