Voices: If you’re a literature nerd like me, today is the most important day of the year
If you’re a big-time book nerd like me, 16 June is basically Christmas.
Only instead of exchanging gifts and getting together with family, adherents to the festivities celebrate by loudly proclaiming that we have read a very difficult novel – and then, depending on how many friends we still have left after that part, we get really, really drunk.
If you’re the type of person who has better things to do than , you may be surprised to learn that this anniversary of Bloomsday – the day on which Irish author James Joyce’s famously difficult novel is set.
