book club
i have been attending a book club with a few friends since the middle of last year. it has been fun and interesting to find out peoples different views on books i liked and loathed. at the moment we are reading 'and the ass saw the angel' by nick cave
this was my choice; i have always wanted to read this book but never got around to it. it is proving very interesting but i won't give anything away until i have finished it and attended our meeting next month.
other books we have read and my scores out of 10 are:
'orlando' by virgina woolf 5/10
'never let me go' kazuo ishiguro 2/10
'brighton rock' graham greene 9/10
'notes from the underground' fyodor dostoyevsky 7/10
'fiesta: the sun also rises' ernest hemingway 8/10
'the possibility of an island' michel houellebecq 3/10 for the first half of the book and 7/10 for the second half.
but one of my favourite books of last year was not a new release but 'day of the triffids' by john wyndham. i am not a fan of sci-fi literature but this book and also 'the chysalids' also by wyndham managed to capture my imagination and stay with me long after finishing. following this tradition of reading 2 books by the same author i am also planning on reading another graham greene book this year and another michel houellebecq. i found 'the possibility of an island' so confronting and hideous in it's subject matter that i am finding myself wanting to find out more about his work by reading more....looking forward to it? maybe not but it will be interesting.
this was my choice; i have always wanted to read this book but never got around to it. it is proving very interesting but i won't give anything away until i have finished it and attended our meeting next month.other books we have read and my scores out of 10 are:
'orlando' by virgina woolf 5/10
'never let me go' kazuo ishiguro 2/10
'brighton rock' graham greene 9/10
'notes from the underground' fyodor dostoyevsky 7/10
'fiesta: the sun also rises' ernest hemingway 8/10
'the possibility of an island' michel houellebecq 3/10 for the first half of the book and 7/10 for the second half.but one of my favourite books of last year was not a new release but 'day of the triffids' by john wyndham. i am not a fan of sci-fi literature but this book and also 'the chysalids' also by wyndham managed to capture my imagination and stay with me long after finishing. following this tradition of reading 2 books by the same author i am also planning on reading another graham greene book this year and another michel houellebecq. i found 'the possibility of an island' so confronting and hideous in it's subject matter that i am finding myself wanting to find out more about his work by reading more....looking forward to it? maybe not but it will be interesting.
posted by tunabake at 12:53 pm
2 Comments:
where are those snow photos?
i have recently finished 'Ghost Written' by 'David Mitchele' - same author as Number 9 Dream. I think it's his best book.
David Mitchell is my new favourite author, thanks to Drue and Ed. And I really don't read that many authors who are still living.
Claire?? you went to Cork and you've seen snow ... where are the photos?
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