Ooh thanks for linking to Hermoine Lee’s picks. I love A Month in the Country. Do that one next if you haven’t yet.
And thanks for confirming my ambivalence about London Falling! I gulped it down and love his writing, but I was left unsatisfied. Of course, there’s no way to beat the ending of Say Nothing, right?
Thank you for all these reading nuggets. And I completely agree with you about London Falling. It could have been a much more meaningful book, more than a glossy read. And I couldn't help chuckling at the predictability of the digressions: "Here we go again!" It seemed to me that he'd just turned this around too fast, basically piling up all his interesting notes without taking the time to let the ideas fully develop.
Read this as "I love /Pierre/" (Melville) — "Yeah, no," as we say in the midwest :)
Ooh thanks for linking to Hermoine Lee’s picks. I love A Month in the Country. Do that one next if you haven’t yet.
And thanks for confirming my ambivalence about London Falling! I gulped it down and love his writing, but I was left unsatisfied. Of course, there’s no way to beat the ending of Say Nothing, right?
I will read it! And yeah, LF lacks a….point….
loving the linotype documentary. thanks for sharing!!
Oh I love Pierre too! We are all Pierre.
hahahahahaha we all are!
Undine Spragg Hive here.
I always pictured her father as Buddy Ebsen.
Thank you for all these reading nuggets. And I completely agree with you about London Falling. It could have been a much more meaningful book, more than a glossy read. And I couldn't help chuckling at the predictability of the digressions: "Here we go again!" It seemed to me that he'd just turned this around too fast, basically piling up all his interesting notes without taking the time to let the ideas fully develop.
Yeah—or he got a contract based on questions he thought he’d find answers to and then didn’t. And he was too close to the family
Good point.