it goes like this / the fourth, the fifth
Mar. 9th, 2009 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni just finished Grand Obsession. the nytimes review covers it well. i had my doubts about the book, since the author is apparently batshit crazy and if i knew her in real life i would have trouble dealing with her. yet she hooked me early on and kept me engaged with her curious combination of dancing about architecture and Modern Marvels.
Knize and i share a sort of musical functional illiteracy - i don't read and count very well because i rely on hearing and feeling instead. and she discovers, as i did, that one can only get so far in the piano repertoire by repeating a section until it is memorized. (i burst into tears reading the passage where her teacher explains that she's been bullshitting up to this point - because no one ever caught me and told me what was wrong.) sometimes i miss playing the piano, and the book evokes everything i loved (and much of what i hated) about it. plus i can't resist knowing how something is made, and the why of it. it was deeply satisfying.
Knize and i share a sort of musical functional illiteracy - i don't read and count very well because i rely on hearing and feeling instead. and she discovers, as i did, that one can only get so far in the piano repertoire by repeating a section until it is memorized. (i burst into tears reading the passage where her teacher explains that she's been bullshitting up to this point - because no one ever caught me and told me what was wrong.) sometimes i miss playing the piano, and the book evokes everything i loved (and much of what i hated) about it. plus i can't resist knowing how something is made, and the why of it. it was deeply satisfying.
