What are you reading now?

[Pulcinella]

That's another example: I loved Moby Dick but could see how many others might find it impossible to get along with.

Sounds like you and my friend would really hit it off!

[smittims]

A much-loved rarity: Commonplace, a novella by Christina Rossetti. A quiet family drama, it would make an excellent BBC costume mini-series. Like Margaret Drabble more recently , Rossetti had the art of writing from a woman's perspective without sounding like a ranting feminist, and thus has something to offer the male reader.

[DracoM]

Re-iterating my support for the quiet, finely narrated 'In the Heart of the Country' by JM Coetzee.
Truly worth reading and re-reading. An author I have been delighted to follow for years.

[smittims]

see my R3 jazz over New Year above. I agree.