The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Second time reading. It's wonderful

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Caves of the Vatican by Andre Gide
I was starting to read this book several times, but I always end up with something else. I am finally giving it a definite go, as I really love this modernist, existential literature.

In my arms she was always...
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Steampunk setting with zombies that has the approval stamp of Warren Ellis... yeah OK I think I can give that a shot.

on my nightstand:

a moveable feast - hemingway
district and circle - seamus heaney

albert camus 'the stranger'
and choke by palanchuck

Palanchuck? That's a bit of a portmanteau there, and I like it! :p:


I'm having another crack at A Tale of Two Cities. I didn't get very far the first time because I got sidetracked with work. I'm thoroughly enjoying it now though. Here's a quote I like:

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every breathing heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

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Ranges from ethereal to fastidious. I'm also a little bothered by the fact that he doesn't seem to perceive anyone else in his family apart from his mother. 50 pages in tho.

Have you read Lolita? I just started it, I've never read anything else of his.

Yup, a few years back but I still like to remember it as the most beautifully written book I've ever read. I've also read Pale fire which is genius but also a bit of a difficult read and Pnin which wasn't very good.