Yeah, there are a couple of scenes where she's alone, and drunken men in packs are coming up at her, and the menace is really well captured. For a comic novel it is amazingly good on the feeling of being powerless.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 11:03 (five years ago) link
After a week of bloody naval warfare, for my next book I chose something where the battles are more sedate: Barchester Towers, A. Trollope, wherein High Church and Low Church clerics politely vie for social supremacy, unsheathing their well-manicured claws at one another, while the reader is invited to look on in fascinated amusement.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
Cesare Pavese: The Beautiful Summer -- wonderful book, lovely cover, but Penguin also fail to give the translator's name and seem to have printed the actual pages on crappy old newsprint and then charged 8 quid for it
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
HALT! Are you aware that a summer reading thread has begun at 2018 Summer: A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and What Are You Reading?, and if not, why not?
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link