Further Literary Adventures

[firstlight]

The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett) is an absolutely lovely little book. It made me smile a lot. (It also reminded me of the existence of the book Howard's End by EM Forster and that particular passage about Beethoven's Fifth, which I remember being very fond of but which I haven't read since, oh, my early teens. Hmm.)

Broken Angels (Richard Morgan) contains considerably more archaeology than I was somehow expecting! Onward. :)

(This is me actually keeping a record of what I'm reading.)

Comments

[umarekawareru.livejournal.com]

I was at the local bookstore ten minutes ago, and was this close to picking up The Uncommon Reader. I decided not to since I was already carrying three books about 600 pages long each, XD, but if you rec it I'll give it a try next time I feel rich/reckless enough to go shopping for books again. *g*

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

It's a very quick read - I went through it in a couple of hours, I suppose - but yeah, lovely. Phoenix got it for me at Christmas. :D