tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759802438862174539.post3675130681757143590..comments2023-09-28T05:20:07.452-07:00Comments on The Yellow Room Editor: Books!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759802438862174539.post-27264225175036546442008-07-10T10:49:00.000-07:002008-07-10T10:49:00.000-07:00Join the club. I still buy more books faster than ...Join the club. I still buy more books faster than I can read them even though I'm trying to curb my habit. <BR/><BR/>Barbara Comyns is one of my favourite novelists. She's seriously weird. It's interting what you say about 'Sppons' reading like a memoir. Most of her novels are grounded in her own life. I think she must have been vaguely autistic but clearly very clever. Her childhood was even more weird. If you can get hold of Sisters By A River - I may have got the title wrong - (It was published by Virago and now OOP) you'll see what I mean!<BR/><BR/>I loved the Giles Waterfield. It's very lyrical and dreamy until the end when it becomes shocking and tragic. I've also read East of The Sun. Although it's a good page-turner, it irritated me in several ways. (Steroetypical characters - a predictable narrative - and a couple of plot threads that fizzled into nothing.)It didn't read as if the author had actually been to India but had cobbled it all together from books. I may be wrong but that's how it seemed to me.Sally Zigmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07520579251842006765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759802438862174539.post-36567135103481118232008-07-09T04:40:00.000-07:002008-07-09T04:40:00.000-07:00I have a friend who was a good friend of Iris Murd...I have a friend who was a good friend of Iris Murdoch's. He says her house was disgustingly dirty! I draw great comfort from that when the the dust gets a little thick on my shelves...<BR/><BR/>Claireclaires inner worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01494500517662517995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759802438862174539.post-86609495445958431842008-07-07T11:10:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:10:00.000-07:00I too love Rose Tremain, especially Sacred Country...I too love Rose Tremain, especially Sacred Country and Music & Silence, and you're right, The Colour was superb. I'm excited to see that The Road Home is now in paperback, so like you I might save it for my holiday in August! If only I could lose some weight by then, too...Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08563878298811062442noreply@blogger.com