Sharing some reactions to “Ulysses” for #bloomsday!

June is a month where two significant works of literature are celebrated, and I’ve already taken part in one of these events with my last post on the genesis of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”. However, today is designated as “Bloomsday”, for the very good reason that James Joyce’s “Ulysses” takes place over one day – 16th June 1904 – and the main protagonist of his story is one Leopold Bloom. As I hinted in my end of May round-up, I have been spending time with a Big Significant Book, one that I had wanted to read for a long time, and that is of course “Ulysses”. Having completed my read of Proust, I figured this was the perfect moment, and so I spent the end of May immersed in Joyce’s work – and what a book it is! Now, I realised that “Ulysses” has possibly had more written about it than any other book going, so that does beg the question as to what can I add to that discourse? So I will simply share some of my responses to the book and what stood out from it for me. Plot-wise, the…