
Hello all. Many thanks to Richard and Claire for their blogs while I was on holiday. While I was away I read Zadie Smith's NW. I'd been meaning to read it since it was published and I wasn't disappointed. What have you been reading? Here's a selection of your comments from last week's blog:
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I've just finished Murakami's 1Q84 books 1 and 2 and have to say the least mixed feelings. The plot interests me and grips me along, but oh deary deary me, the prose. Just when I'm getting hooked, the momentum is halted like a rhino hitting a brick wall by the leaden awkward prose. Is all of Murakami's work like this, and is book 3 worth reading - I'm tempted if only to finish the story, but might leave it a while.
Next up for me is Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, and then Will Self's Umbrella is primed for my readerly attention.