There's two week's worth of reading covered in the last TLS thread. Here are the highlights, starting with the merits of reading in stereo:
I'm reading A Heart So White by Javier Marias after hearing him on a BBC World Service podcast, talking about the book. It had been on my Amazon wishlist for years but I found him such an engrossing and interesting guest on that podcast, that I ordered the book almost as soon as I had finished listening to it.
I'm currently reading and listening to "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford. And it's very enjoyable. I like the listening/ reading combination, especially with a complex dense novel like this one: in effect it means I read the book twice. The narration into the audiobook I am listening to is superb. I sneaked a look on YouTube at the previews for the recent television dramatisation, but don't really feel tempted to watch any more of it. For me a well read audiobook can bring a text to life far more vividly.
Any other audiobooks recommendations? Do post them in the thread below.
Just finished The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Think Little House on the Prairie meets Han Christian Andersen. Not as whimsical as I'd feared but something altogether more solid and grounded and an absorbing read.
And a popular idea posted by Dylanwolf:
I'd definitely be interested in reading some novel/film adaption analysis articles. I'm very anxious about the impending "Cloud Atlas" film - not at all sure that I want to go and see it.
I'll see what I can do. Here's the trailer - the long one - if haven't seen it and would like to.
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So, on with this week. Here are the books we'll be writing about and reviewing this week, subject to last minute changes, as always.
Non-fiction
• The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
• London Bridge in America by Travis Elborough
• Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun
• Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
• Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
Fiction
• Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura
• A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
• Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
• Marry Me by Dan Rhodes
• How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
• The Investigation by Philippe Claudel
Children
• Positively Last Performance by Geraldine McCaughrean
