tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245397249610344854.post8190662105934438610..comments2023-05-13T03:23:39.224-06:00Comments on KD's Bookblog: Captive ReadersKaren Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13789680393598240201noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245397249610344854.post-27071770871622405192010-08-30T15:19:54.969-06:002010-08-30T15:19:54.969-06:00Being Melville--me? Sounds like a good poetry prom...Being Melville--me? Sounds like a good poetry prompt, but I doubt my kinship with that great whale of a writer. And by the way, I had to read it twice in grad school.Karen Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00993898852990125898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245397249610344854.post-67904011687637501192010-08-26T22:44:46.652-06:002010-08-26T22:44:46.652-06:00Ah, but don't we earnestly hope that Evanovitc...Ah, but don't we earnestly hope that Evanovitch is NOT required reading in some future American lit course, while Melville certainly shall continue to be? There's an image in Moby Dick, at the end, of a bird caught somehow and dragged flapping and terrified down into the darkness, that I always thought was the reader. <br /><br />Now I've blown my cover. I scandalized the departmentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com