Self is back to reading Howard Jacobson’s novel, The Act of Love.
Oh, the places this book has traveled!
When she really likes a book, she cannot stand to finish it.
She’s on p. 247, when she encounters this fabulous sentence:
All the men in our family my father’s age had themselves whipped as a matter of course.
After self reads that fabulous sentence, she simply can’t stand to read anymore, so many FEELZ to process, so instead she turns to the books she has lined up to read after she finishes The Act of Love:
- George Eliot’s Middlemarch
- Leon Werth’s 33 Days, translated from the French by Austin D. Johnston
- Richard Norton Taylor’s The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage From the Cold War to Global Terror
- three books by Ruth Rendell (British mystery writer, one of self’s favorites. She passed away May this year): A Judgment in Stone, Tree of Hands, and A Sight for Sore Eyes
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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