I had a busy reading week! I finished
Holiday, by Stanley Middleton, then blasted through
The Daylight Gate and Jeanette Winterson's memoir
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? All of those books were really excellent and will be some tough acts to follow. I read the memoir in two sittings. Just, wow.
But follow them I must, and to do so I'm treating myself to another Booker Prize winner, Paul Scott's
Staying On, a sort of coda to his four-volume Raj Quartet series about the end of the British in India. I'm just a few pages in but I'm really enjoying it.
I'm also keeping on with
The Kept, as its secrets slowly unfurl. It's not the fastest moving book ever but I think I just reached a turning point. Can't wait to see what's around the corner!
5 comments:
Staying on is definitely going on my TBR. I've read so many books of how Britons continued to stay in India after independence and these stories were wonderful. This should be another one of those.
I am reading Princesses Behaving Badly and it is very interesting.
I am reading Princesses Behaving Badly and it is very interesting.
I've been wanting to read the Winterson memoir for a while-glad to hear you liked it!
You read the most interesting books!
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