Making up for lost time

I got through Wuthering Heights. I had to take a few shortcuts to make it through (like a bit of audio-book listening versus reading), but I retained enough to get the points of the lesson. The language is a bit dense, but the story itself was pretty enjoyable, I thought. I would like to go back and give it a proper read-through when I have the time. One thing I really liked that we didn’t get to touch on in class was the nature of Heathcliff’s antagonism – yeah he ends up being this colossal jerk towards everyone around him, but he didn’t start out that way. He was betrayed or abandoned by just about everyone that showed him any kindness, that’s going to mess anyone up. I tended to think of him not as malevolent as much as revealing; he just showed the negativity everyone around him tended to repress.

I also read a couple of magazines from the base room: the Graphic Novel edition of the Bookseller and the Oct 11 issue of Marketing. Marketing I couldn’t get a lot out of, but that may just be because I didn’t have a lot to look for. I think it’s a magazine you read when you have a particular thing you want to sell and need to know how others are doing the same thing. The Bookseller was a bit more for me, I definitely want to read the more general edition, but the Graphic Novel section was very informative. It focused on how bookstores might move more product of that medium, and not just manga (although that’s what most people are buying but I’m not going to comment on that). I love my comic book shop, but if the medium is going to expand I think it’s going to be in bookstores, so that’s an outlet I and other aspiring comic book makers should pay attention to. I’m going to try to make borrowing magazines from the base room a regular thing – I don’t know that I’ll be able to read them any other way.