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Well I'm back from the 'Wich, not sure how the job interview went but I should know by tomorrow. I'm pretty sure I won't get it since almost all the questions were customer services orientated, which I have very limited experience of, so.... Ah well its all "experience" etc, and I am at least pleased that I got the interview.
I actually noticed the announcement of the Booker longlist this year (mainly because I was reading the Guardian online before my interview to kill time). I was suprised to find that I have not read a SINGLE one of them. I was seriously seriously shocked. I like to think I keep up with current books etc, so this was a pretty poor showing on my part. To be fair there are a few I have been planning to read, when I have the money to buy books again :'( The only downside to relying on the library (particularly my tiny local library) for your reading selections is that there is obviously a gap between publication and arrival in the libraries, which is bad for the impatient toddler in me who wants things NOW. Maybe I could see if I could work through previous Booker winners or something instead, although to be honest with you, whether or not my library will stock them is debatable, and I am too lazy to go to our borough's central library where I would have more chance. Dilemma!
I am currently really enjoying reading through all of Sarah Waters books, all of which I borrowed from the library. My friend recommended her to me ages ago, but it was only when all the publicity for her new book came out (and another of my friends met her and got a really funny message from her written on her arm!) that I remembered. I've now read all her Victorian ones and am currently reading The Night Watch. She's brilliant - the perfect mix of rollicking good yarn type stuff, and amazing writing and intellectual underpinning. As I was reading Fingersmith I even started to think about how I want to write an essay about her books (something on the theme of surveillance and desire possibly via Judith Butler) and then I realised that I am insane, and this is what being a literature student does for you.
I actually noticed the announcement of the Booker longlist this year (mainly because I was reading the Guardian online before my interview to kill time). I was suprised to find that I have not read a SINGLE one of them. I was seriously seriously shocked. I like to think I keep up with current books etc, so this was a pretty poor showing on my part. To be fair there are a few I have been planning to read, when I have the money to buy books again :'( The only downside to relying on the library (particularly my tiny local library) for your reading selections is that there is obviously a gap between publication and arrival in the libraries, which is bad for the impatient toddler in me who wants things NOW. Maybe I could see if I could work through previous Booker winners or something instead, although to be honest with you, whether or not my library will stock them is debatable, and I am too lazy to go to our borough's central library where I would have more chance. Dilemma!
I am currently really enjoying reading through all of Sarah Waters books, all of which I borrowed from the library. My friend recommended her to me ages ago, but it was only when all the publicity for her new book came out (and another of my friends met her and got a really funny message from her written on her arm!) that I remembered. I've now read all her Victorian ones and am currently reading The Night Watch. She's brilliant - the perfect mix of rollicking good yarn type stuff, and amazing writing and intellectual underpinning. As I was reading Fingersmith I even started to think about how I want to write an essay about her books (something on the theme of surveillance and desire possibly via Judith Butler) and then I realised that I am insane, and this is what being a literature student does for you.