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Sep 2018
8:29pm, 13 Sep 2018
16,342 posts
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Columba
Finished The Wings of the Dove. Returned it to the library. Fortuitously, Wise Children had arrived and was waiting for me.
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Sep 2018
11:14am, 14 Sep 2018
2,044 posts
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DazTheSlug
I'm nearly half way through Wise Children - the style is quite unusual/charming/entertaining but also rather dense/wearing, so I'm reading it in short bursts...
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Sep 2018
11:16am, 14 Sep 2018
106,825 posts
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GregP
I'm flummoxed by TTTC. The writing is exquisite, but it feels like a bunch of magazine pieces.
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Sep 2018
11:20am, 14 Sep 2018
30,063 posts
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Diogenes
Machine gun magazines?
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Sep 2018
9:24pm, 14 Sep 2018
1,193 posts
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beebop
Sign on a shelf at York Bookfair: ‘All signed (including Shakespeare)’.
They weren’t. I checked...
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Sep 2018
9:41pm, 15 Sep 2018
24,052 posts
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Seratonin
^^^:-)
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Sep 2018
8:25am, 19 Sep 2018
30,136 posts
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Diogenes
I am coming to the end of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I’m not at all sure what I think about it. I appreciate it’s merit without actually liking or enjoying it. I don’t actively dislike it, but It seems far too knowing for my liking, and false. These wise children don’t ring true, they are like the opposite of the adults playing kids in Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills.
Maybe this goes back to the mystery surrounding Ferrante’s true identity? There are some who say she is the translator Anita Raja, while a study of the writing style concludes the author is actually Raja’s husband, the writer Domenico Starnone.
I am also plodding dutifully through Reservoir 13.
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Sep 2018
8:26am, 19 Sep 2018
24,582 posts
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LindsD
I've finished Wise Children. Not sure where to go next.
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Sep 2018
8:35am, 19 Sep 2018
13,849 posts
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Sharkie
I still haven't managed to pick up My Brilliant Friend again (got about 70 pages in) in spite of a ringing endorsement from Bint. It has joined the unfinished heap of Dalston along with the first Game of Thrones book which I bought out of curiosity in spite of not-being-keen-on-that-kind-of-thing*
Have finished Lincoln in the Bardo and am reading Conversation with Friends for a second time (with almost indecent haste - less than a year) because I liked it so much and am too skint to buy Sally Rooney's new book in hardback.
* see Stewart Lee.
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Sep 2018
9:19am, 19 Sep 2018
24,588 posts
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LindsD
Ooh. Sally Rooney. I heard the director of Normal People (forthcoming) on Front Row last night. Might do Conversations with Friends next, then.
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