hello!
today, shockingly (which shows how excited i was to write this post), i went to the bookstore and managed to buy a few books. standard wednesday pepper behavior, alongside avoiding working on artfight attacks. here's what i got for those curious:
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not a whole lot of stuff, but interesting either way.
however, what i found the most interesting is the copy of "pnin" i got, which is -- for some reason -- printed backwards??
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i actually have no idea if this is intentional or not! i'm not too familiar with nabokov's works (despite having "lolita" and "pale fire" on my shelf), but given his style and inclination for playing tricks on the readers, i'm inclined to believe this is intentional, maybe giving the reader their own pninian mistake to better understand the character.
however, given that what i can find online seems to neglect mentioning this unique choice of printing, i'm also thinking that it's just an error on the publisher (no fault on them! mistakes happen!)
i'll keep the book anyway, but i'll ask around and see if other copies are printed this way.
oh, if nabokov were alive today... i'm sure he'd get a rather decent chuckle out of this situation.

the funny thing is, this reminds me so much of something that would happen in italo calvino's "if on a winter's night a traveler", a book that involves the main character (who is you, the same you reading this blog. i was you once, when i read the book during a really long flight) trying to read a certain book and being met with lots of printing errors in the quest to read italo calvino's "if on a winter's night a traveler".
i just thought that was a kinda funny parallel. the book itself was pretty good, but i wasn't a huge fan of how calvino wrote the women in the story (too passive and only existed to serve as love interests for the protagonist) and i think a bit more time with each "book" in the story would be good too, but it's an incredibly interesting book if anybody out there is interested in the purpose and act of reading. it's a good calvino book, but not really my favorite of his.

while i write this post, i'm actually really inclined to read pnin now, so maybe i will. i'll keep an update if i can figure anything else out about this weird printing.


thanks for reading,
-pepper