I've made it to chapter six. I feel like it was only when I was about a hundred pages in that I got used to the style of writing. The flashbacks, the random digressions, the unfinished thoughts.
It has been a month since my last post but you can blame the busy end of the teaching term on that: parent teacher interviews, wrapping up assessment tasks, summoning the motivation to motivate my classes, and all that.
At the moment I'm reading about two pages at a time, so at that rate it will take me a year to get through the rest of it. That's a bit daunting, but I'm enjoying what I'm reading at this point, so I'll press on.
I enjoyed his visit to the church to All Hallows Church, watching what was going on as an outsider. Also, he collects a letter from someone he is secretly corresponding with. His frequent mental checks about the envelope, which may be incriminating, make me smile: "I tore up the envelope? Yes."
