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sojourner said:
What do you think of it so far?
very difficult to say; i only started it on the train this morning. i'm slightly gripped by the story - it's kind of hard not to be - but i am in no place where i feel qualified to judge her writing yet. what did you think of it btw?

i'll let you know, when i know :)
 
tastebud said:
very difficult to say; i only started it on the train this morning. i'm slightly gripped by the story - it's kind of hard not to be - but i am in no place where i feel qualified to judge her writing yet. what did you think of it btw?

i'll let you know, when i know :)
Just had to search for meself on here, and posts 6235 and 6236 say this:

"I have 40 pages left that I'm saving for tomorrow, but I've been glued to it all day. And...my dirty little secret is that I absolutely love Barbara I love the structure of the text - simple narrative devices such as it being non-linear, writing-about-writing (forgot the term for this, I'm not well), and addressing the reader Tristram Shandy style are used to brilliant effect. Barbara's monologue is cutting, hilarious, brittle and brutal. I heart Barbara :D"

"Finished it - what a brilliant novel. And foamy, I agree with you more than ever now - I see B with much more twisted maternal feelings than lesbian"

So err yeh, I loved it!
 
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. For bookclub. It's an easy read *yawn*
 
now reading:

Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year"... Which i assume was supposed to be suspenseful, but I can't find any suspense or excitement in there even if I searched the pages with torch and magnifying glass...

Interesting fact: The very learned, Oxbridge scholarly introduction tells that the author was born to a man named mr. Foe, which leaves an interesting question- If christened Foe, why did his son take the surname Defoe? :confused:
Was it because of the French influence on the prominent classes, or was it just the custom at the time (I assume Defoe = de Foe, i.e. son of Foe?)*

*Could any Urbs explain and enlighten me, because ze curiosity eez aroused now... :D
 
on the train - voices from the british underground - a talking heads book about 60s counterculture.

in bed - jimmy corrigan, the smartest kid on earth
 
Having recently finished 'The Poe Shadow' by Matthew Pearl I thought it would be a good idea to try and read some Poe, having not previously done so. I've just finished the 'Pit and the Pendulum' and wasn't impressed at all, so allowing for the fact that it might not be particularly representative of his work I'm going to read 'The House Of Usher'.

BB:)
 
And I can say that the 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Poe wasn't a huge improvement on the other tale, so I'm going to go for a comfort read. I'm going to pick up 'Q' again.

BB:)
 
I've just finished Chocolat by Joanne Harris.

Twas alright, a bit Paulo Coelho though...

My colleagues gonna lend me Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis but I have no book to read today so maybe I'll start another one and then read Lunar Park. Maybe I'll go to Oxfam on my way home and by some more books :cool:
 
obanite said:
Wilbur Smith - River God

I <3 Egypt fiction :cool:

There are more Wilbur Smith books on the shelf, I reckon you'll like them too.

I was reading "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant until this morning.

It's the story of Dinah (Joseph's sister (you know, technicolour dream coat Joseph! :rolleyes:)) and I really enjoyed it.
 
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