Another short one – this Booker prize-winning novel traces the parallel stories of Olivia, a young Englishwoman living in the Raj in the 20s, and the narrator, another young Englishwomen who goes to India fifty years later to try and trace Olivia’s story. This is a very easy book to read but I found both of the main characters slightly annoying, and I didn’t understand why they acted the way they did which made it rather a frustrating read. This is another one where I would like to see the film, although I suspect it might be quite different to the book.
Jun 12, 07:38AM PDT | 0 comments
2. The Hours
5 months ago
This novel is a sort of literary riff, or variations, on Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs Dalloway”. I did find it clever, and I enjoyed reading it, but I didn’t find myself thinking about it once I’d finished (which didn’t take long, it’s a very short book). I am now keen to watch the film though, I’ll be intrigued to see how they adapted it.
Jun 12, 07:25AM PDT | 0 comments
65. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
66. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
67. Plutarch’s Lives
68. Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
69. Kidnapped, R L Stevenson
70. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
71. Suite Francaise, Irine Nemerovsky
72. Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
73. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
74. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
75. A House for Mr Biswas, V S Naipaul
76. Tender is the Night, F Scott Fitzgerald
77. Lady Chatterly’s Lover, D H Laurence
78. The Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker
79. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
80. Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
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