I finished

[hatemostcordial]

 So I finally finished the book I've been reading for about three weeks, called An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears.  I am admittedly a very slow reader, but this is one of the longest spans I've spent on a book.  It's divided into 4 parts, each with a different narrator describing the same events.  Kind of like Rashomon or The Sound and

Comments

[soulofchris]

I'm currently reading Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. I'd highly recommend it, thus far.

[hatemostcordial]

Yay! I loved Middlesex. Have you read The Virgin Suicides?

[soulofchris]

I have not. I picked this up off the recommendations of a few people, plus my own curiosity. I'm going to see how it goes, and I may get The Virgin Suicides afterwards, because a lot of people tell me it's great. I think my next venture after this is going to be His Dark Materials trilogy.

[hatemostcordial]

I read those last year. The first is brilliant, and they get decreasingly interesting as the trilogy moves on. By the end I was like, WTF.

[gallianoparfait]

I just read Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach, which took all of an hour and a half. It was very well-written, involving, and psychologically perceptive, about the breakup of a marriage by the evening of the wedding day itself. I had seen the film Atonement, based on the same author's book. Before that was some short nonfiction, Christopher Hitchens' The Missionary Position, a very credible trashing of Mother Teresa. Now I am on Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood; next is a biography by Helen Sheehy of the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse. Books, movies, classical music, lasagna...they are all I need.

[hatemostcordial]

Truly...media, food and coffee.

[hatemostcordial]

OMG have you read McEwan's "Saturday?" I read it twice. Your thoughts, signore? I liked "Atonement" less, and do want to see the movie. It's on my list.

Saturday

[gallianoparfait]

No, but it goes on the library list.