[Yes, a lame post but a week is a long time in blogland and I’ve forgotten how/am a lazy bitch who can’t be arsed writing anything better.]
To the Is-land/An Angel at my Table/The Envoy from
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood. Also a reread.
In-between I’ve nibbled at The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys, some Anne book or another, and this month’s The Monthly. Yesterday I started on The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffeneger) and I suspect that I won’t like the ending but that I’ll get there all too soon. I also suspect that I’m avoiding something. I wonder what.
3 comments:
I love the Janet Frame autobiographies. Chocolate bar wrappers and menstrual rags and the beastie dress and that bloke in Ibeza - I normally forget the details of books within three days of reading 'em, but the images from these are permanently enbrained in my noggin.
I also love The Handmaid's Tale. I would volunteer to become Margaret Atwood's scullerymaid and shoe-shiner, if I thought she'd have me. What's that line? - something like "Date rapé, sounds like a dessert."
I only have The Time Traveller's Wife, but still haven't got around to reading it. People keep on telling me it's worth it.
Tim, I read it very quickly and finished it early this afternoon. I am now annoyed with it and wish I hadn't picked it up at all. I did enjoy it while I read it though.
Alexis, I know what you mean about Janet Frame - she just pours over you and you get wrapped up in the moments and then it's all over and all you have are fragments.
I'm not a huge fan of Margaret Atwood but Handmaid and Oryx and Crake[?] get to me. I like her projections. It is very much that line - very amusing.
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