Back out of that earlier page, all too much about school:

 Anastasia >:

a name [famous (female{Russian?)}]: enough of a tease to pick up this book

 

Translator’s Preface >:

Baffling ?: “What kind of book are U translating”?  //  “What kind of book iWriting”?: a link to con’t.

 

Contents >:

31 (shortish) chapters: a decidedly mixed bag, if ever there was one: to con’t.

 

Ch.1    The Ringing Cedar >:

Business venture in Siberia: interrupted by mysterious cedar-tree offer: to con’t.

 

Ch.2    Encounter >:

Vladamir returns; a hook-up w/ Anastasia ends in assault comeuppance; to con’t.

 

Ch.3   Beast or Man? >:

Vlad distressed @ her home: How live in forest with no possessions? Link to con’t

 

Ch.4   Who are they? >:

If I have a task, it is to see Il Bosco Sacro: to consider the religious hermit.  to con’t.

 

Ch.5  A Forest Bedroom

Ch.6  Anastasia’s morning

Ch.7  Anastasia’s ray

Ch.8  Concert in the taiga >:

1. Ch.5 barely a page.

2. Read 20-some at one sitting.

3. Had a hitching post at that point:

4. “Strange” her attitudes to(ward) us VERSUS “Incredible” her ability to talk about and understand us.

5. Kept going: Read Ch.9, Who lights a new start?

6. Wandered upon (then wondered about) a “baby carriage,” in the book as in my blog header

7. Ch.10, Her beloved dachniks [i.e., those at their dacha] or gardeners

8. Still doesn’t feel much, if at all, like the novel translator claims it to be

9. But for the first time, at least a sense of narrative propulsion (or compulsion)

10. See where it leads; later to con’t.