So how does one follow the experience of being deeply moved by Henry James? Nothing in the house seemed up to the job and I wasn't even sure that I wanted to dilute the aftermath with more James.
So, something very different was called for. Graphic novels! (Though in my head they are still comics and all the more fun for it). It makes my list of recent reading look a touch schizophrenic: Henry James, Shakespeare, Caitlin Moran's laugh out loud feminist memoir How to Be a Woman (and more on that later), then The Walking Dead, Y: The Last Man, and The Unwritten.
Yes, I have many readerly personalities. I love reading. And sometimes it's good to look in unexpected places. I am sure that Shakespeare read everything he could get his hands on. He might even have been tickled by the plot possibilities of zombies; a plague that has killed all the men in the world and the troubles of a man who may not actually exist but has come out of a book.
Henry James, I suspect, would have been less tickled.
(Graphic novel recommendations gleaned from another reader of many personalities.)
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