I fear my apologies for lack of updates are beginning to sound a little hollow, so I will forgo.
I haven't done a lot of reading lately for whatever reason, but I have done a little as you can see. I'm still liking A Room with a View although I'm over a quarter of the way through the book and it still seems like not a lot has happened. She witnessed a murder, but that's about it.
Anyway, the word of the day is "desideratum" which means "something that is needed or wanted." (definition from The New Oxford American Dictionary)
E.M. Forster's writing is often perceptive and poetic, something I'm enjoying. I love those moments in a book when you read something and say to yourself, "Ah, I am incredibly familiar with that concept, only I have never thought it through in so many words." I have had several of those moments in this book. One I liked was this quote, in which Lucy and George Emerson end up spending a few moments (scandalously!) alone together in Italy. Forster writes,
"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."
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