Brideshead Revisited (1945)
I spent the last two days reading Brideshead Revisited and just finished a few minutes ago. So great to find a novel that you can just sink into. Beautiful, tragic, British people suffering in the 1920s and 30s - nothing better. I have never seen the famous miniseries, but now I think I'll rent it. And read more Evelyn Waugh, which I haven't done before. I avoided him because I caught a few minutes of a mediocre Masterpiece Theater production of Scoop a while back and this gave me a bad association with him. I also watched Stephen Fry's film of Vile Bodies, called Bright Young Things, and that wasn't super great, either. Now I want to try a lot of his books.
Lately I've been reading a lot of those "Britain between the Wars" books and for some reason I really love that period. I often wonder what it must've been like to live during WWI and WWII when the whole world was falling apart. I don't know if I could've handled it - things got bad enough with the Bush Administration for me.
Lately I've been reading a lot of those "Britain between the Wars" books and for some reason I really love that period. I often wonder what it must've been like to live during WWI and WWII when the whole world was falling apart. I don't know if I could've handled it - things got bad enough with the Bush Administration for me.