You can’t even rely on a novel’s “classic” status, whatever that consists of. But glorious reviews also led me to Life After Life, Animals and The Death of Bees, three recent books which delighted my very left ventricle. ![]() This explains The Shock of the Fall, Gone Girl, Little Big and Her. Also, I think I’m easily led by reviewer enthusiasm. Part of the problem is that when I find an author I like I never read anything else by them, it would be too obvious (recent exceptions : Edward St Aubyn and Jean Rhys). I hated them & felt they were a blight on my life. I just checked, and 13 out of 27 novels read so far this year have got a 1 or 2 star rating, i.e. I can dish out advice, start up a helpline, I know which novel to attach to the St Bernard dog to take to the fallen climber in the Alps.Įxcept, I’m actually getting worse at picking novels to read. ![]() It must make me some kind of authority now. ![]() Did I tell you I just clocked up a count of just over 500 novels read, according to my GR novels shelf? Hey, how about that.
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