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Jul 31, 20151 min read
324. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night
Tried starting this two years ago in Spain; couldn’t get into it. A bit of a curate’s egg; some of his writing is excellent; some less...
Jun 26, 20151 min read
318. Saul Bellow - Humbolt's Gift
Tried, but failed to finish this at the end of the holiday. Bellow now seems to me to be very overrated; some Jewish humour, but pretty...
Jun 14, 20151 min read
220. William Faulkner - The Sound And The Fury
Best serious holiday read so far. Never read any Faulkner before, but this, although difficult was very good, especially part two (out of...
Nov 11, 20141 min read
260. Andrew Rosenheim - The Informant
Not sure what to make of this, or exactly what genre it aspires to. I guess spy thriller. I thought it would compare interestingly with...
Aug 28, 20141 min read
238. Sue Monk Kidd - The Invention Of Wings
Paddy recommended this; I didn’t like it at first, but enjoyed it more and more as it progressed. It is a semi-fictionalised biography of...
Jul 11, 20141 min read
227. William Faulkner - Sanctuary
Found the plot very hard to follow, but probably no more so the ‘The Sound and the Fury' (no.220), although that was billed as difficult....
Jun 15, 20141 min read
221. Jonathan Kellerman - True Detectives
Truly awful, but I needed a bit of a light read and found this in the villa. Kellerman is the worst type of US psycho-crime babble...
Jun 19, 20131 min read
120. Henry James - The Bostonians
By way of contrast, a book I have never read before and a real shock at that. Not a comedy of manners, nor a US/European culture clash as...
Jun 3, 20131 min read
112. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Trying to read some old books, preferably in paper, before we fly off to Spain. I enjoyed this more than I expected; the key bit of...
Jun 11, 20121 min read
17. Henry James - The Portrait Of A Lady
This is a wonderful book. I expected to find it hard work (it was at times) but as a chronicle of American naivety, Puritanism and I...