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where I am
I haven't felt like deleting this but I haven't been posting.
I'm mostly on Facebook where I'm Elizabeth Fox and of course The Well. -
What I'm reading, about to read
John Wilcock New York Years, 1954-1971, Ethan Persoff & Scott Marshall. A collection of comic strips from Boing Boing, illustrating the career of John Wilcock. He started the Village Voice and knew a lot of interesting people so this is quite entertaining, and I like the drawings. Current strips are here.
The Wild Party, Joseph Moncure March, Art ( Read more... ) -
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Longer review of Instead of a Letter: A Memoir by Diana Athill. I'm starting a project to read down my many unread biographies and memoirs. I didn’t know who she was but will read just about any memoir that looks interesting and I enjoyed this. She was an editor and one of the directors of the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd., and ( Read more... ) -
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Uh oh, I'm way behind, so here's what I've been reading:
The Patrick Melrose Novels Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, Edward St Aubyn. Five stars. I'm not one of those people who can't enjoy books where the characters are un-likeable, luckily, because so far nearly everybody in the first book of this omnibus is horrible. But they're ( Read more... ) -
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I finished Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively and really enjoyed it. Claudia is dying, looking back on her long and eventful life. She's prickly, not much of a mother. She's always been a woman who's done what she wanted. She thinks about history, people she's loved, people who were part of her life and have become part of her. Some relationships were ( Read more... ) -
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Finished this: Now You See Me, S. J. Bolton. I do like a good psychotic killer but somehow this one strained my credulity. It was a good read, though, and the twists and turns (a couple I saw coming, others were surprising) were very entertaining. I'm enjoying going back over the bits where an omniscient narrator shared information, though in the ( Read more... ) -
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Now You See Me, S. J. Bolton ( Read more... ) -
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I see I haven't updated in a while. I'll fix that.
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson. A curiosity read for me - it's a YA novel that's said to really show what anorexia is like. Lia's been in the hospital a couple of times and now awkwardly living with her father and his wife and fighting with them and her mother - both of her parents are pretty ( Read more... ) -
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I finished Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America, Jonathan Gould, and give it five stars ( Read more... ) -
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The Night Watch, Sarah Waters. Stories of several intertwined people. starting in post-war London and going backwards. In 1947 they're adjusting to post-war life. Someone remarks on how during the war, everybody was so kind and helpful to each other, just as in A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, the ( Read more... )