Showing posts with label the corrections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the corrections. Show all posts

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Writer's no one reads

This tumblr made me laugh and laugh and laugh – Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out.

No one reads Jules  Renard.

No one reads Larbi Layachi.

No one reads Roland Topor. (Cover, long out-of-print Stories and Drawings, Peter Owen, 1968.)

I’m still knee deep in “The Corrections” and needed some respite from their heavy hearted discontent, so I started reading Orhan Pamuk’s childhood memoirs Istanbul: Memories and a City”.

Unfortunately seems like I’ve jumped from one bag of neuroses to another.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

An unbroken series of events

[images via: From me to you]

After he had a look at us he said: "Mortmain, your women are spectacular."
"I'm not," I said.
"Ah, but you're the insidious type - Jane Eyre with a touch of Becky Sharp. A throughly dangerous girl."


I feel like I'm still on a winning streak with the books I've been reading this summer. I'm almost holding my breath that I don't jinx myself and read a dud. Though saying that I'm almost certain that the books at the top of my pile to read are going to be winners - The Corrections and Nourishment.

I'm also peachy keen to sink my teeth into the next bookclub book: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.