5/21/2023 0 Comments One moment one morning book![]() ![]() I did my fifty pages test - and stuck with it as long as I could take it. It was an eccentric, whimsical novel that I loved back then - but the sequel was leaving me cold. A sequel to a fantasy novel I read twenty years ago. I tried to get into one of the books on my pile that's been waiting a hugely long time for my attention. But I'm just going to have to get used to that. Strange being there, without Fester in his wickerwork chair, or hopping over to sit or lie on me as I read. It was warm enough on Saturday to sit in the Beach House to read, for longer than an hour. It looks like I might have to reread *all* of his books now, before getting to the new one. There's a gallows humour in everything that he does, of course, but on this revisit I was really struck by the sadness of the family stories especially. On rereading it seemed so much more serious and sour than before. David Sedaris' 'Naked' was a real treat to return to, twelve or some years after I first read it. Last week I piled up those TBRs - and flung myself into some comfort reading. ![]() It's been a good time for burying myself in work - and also for reading. ![]()
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