The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, by W.H.Davies. I can't decide how much is fiction and how much fact. If it's really autobiography he had an amazing memory for detail (excluding direct speech which is about as authentic as in any of the Classical writers like Caesar or Cicero).
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JM Coetzee; 'Summertime'.
VERY, very weird format...........but funny, sad, intelligent and insightful, and asks questions about relationships. partic good on 'men' and their 'feelings' [ugh!]Comment
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Jhumpa Lahiri: The namesake
The story of a Bengali boy growing up in suburban America.
For once, I'll agree with the Daily Mail (blurb on the back): Impeccably written.Comment
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I always enjoy JL - Interpreter of Maladies was good, and The Lowland.Comment
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Just started reading an advance copy of The Indian Contingent, by debut author Ghee Bowman, out on May 21.
We have high hopes of this, it is a really well written history of a sadly overlooked aspect of military and social history. It has a number of very high profile endorsements, which you can see on the Amazon listing, and I would think it could well be of interest to forum history enthusiasts.
Available to pre- order at a great price from A Great Read.
Sorry, but not very, for the shameless plug !I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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I have this on the shelf to be read, thanks for the nudge. More recently hasn’t she learnt Italian from scratch to translate an entire volume of short stories?Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostComment
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'Originally posted by teamsaint View PostJust started reading an advance copy of The Indian Contingent, by debut author Ghee Bowman, out on May 21.
We have high hopes of this, it is a really well written history of a sadly overlooked aspect of military and social history. It has a number of very high profile endorsements, which you can see on the Amazon listing, and I would think it could well be of interest to forum history enthusiasts.
Available to pre- order at a great price from A Great Read.
Sorry, but not very, for the shameless plug !
Interesting , will check it out
I seem to remember someone talking about it at the Jaipur festival when I was there in JanuaryComment
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Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise. I bought it in 1979 and couldn't get on with it, and I still can't. I detect a whiff of old Etonian cleverclogs laying down the law and I'm prejudiced against it for that. Anyway, in 1979 I'd heard of Cyril Connolly - everyone had. But now I haven't.
Penguin Classic, with its perfect binding falling apart, doomed to be replaced on the shelf again still unread. Whatever possessed me to give it another try?Comment
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You might be thinking of this?Originally posted by muzzer View Post
She has written in Italian, as well as translated from it.
You might like this New Yorker interview too.
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Hardy - Mayor of CasterbridgeComment
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Henry James, The Awkward Age. Just finished. What on earth is it about?Comment
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Yes I think that’s where I am misremembering from seeing it ;)Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostYou might be thinking of this?
She has written in Italian, as well as translated from it.
You might like this New Yorker interview too.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/this...iri-2018-01-29Comment
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The source of the expression “the pram in the hall” iirc.....Originally posted by Count Boso View PostComment
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Readers of New Scientist are surely as devoted as Gramophonians, and many turn to Feedback first...:
"Ever since water was first shown to be transformable into wine (manuscript still in review)..."
LOL!... the near-genius of saying so much in so few words...Comment
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Wally Lamb I Know This Much Is True
reading for a book club but I guess HBO is releasing it as a mini seriesComment
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