The End
No, not the end of the blog, but of Harry Potter. I read the last three books back to back and was all magic potions, jinxes and polyjuice.
That was a few weeks ago and since then I’ve ‘rediscovered’ books. I’ve read Marish Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics - fun, but not quite The Secret History promised on the back cover. Went back to Suite Francaise which was stunning and then reading all the info at the back sad and tragic. There seem to be lots of books I’ve started this year and not finished, so now I’ve started The Inheritance of Loss (I so love that title) again and whereas before I thought it was dense and hard to understand, now its beautiful and clever and witty and wise.
I’ve had these two books in the pile on my bedside table for some months now! But you’ve inspired me to go back to Suite Francaise and The Inheritance of Loss (love the title, too). I finally bought Suite Francaise in the summer, but stupidly read the Appendices first and then thought there was no point in reading the book. Those letters were so sad. I bought The Inheritance of Loss in India to read there, but the print was so small that I was put off. So my mother gave me her copy in which the print was fractionally larger. I think I’ll go for Suite Francaise first…TIOL still seems a bit dense.