Have just returned from my bookclub where our reading was 600+ pages of DESPAIR. I kept reading because I thought “oh this has to get better!” Nope. Far from a beach read! It’s the Trump campaign. The book at least had lyrical language and memorable characters! And Im going to read “Night Watch” now. Promise me I won’t be caught between despair and “oh God take me now!”
Brilliant! Just what I needed on this summer-is-my-least-favorite-season day which is not so hot that I can't still suffer through hot flushes. I really loved your piece!
I do not care for book clubs, as I gather you do not, either. A friend took me to hers at a, shall we say, Brahmin book club at her, well, Brahmin club. I had not read the book, but I had plenty to say. Many women said to my hostess, "Oh, bring her again!" Fat chance.
Margo, I love my book club. They have turned me on to many more great books than books I could not finish. The latest: Night Watch, a Pulitzer Prize winner by Jayne Anne Phillips. If you have not read it, order it at once!
So I've started -- and the mother has been rendered speechless from having too many "babbies," but did I read you correctly to stop reading 2/3 of the way because "it falls apart?" And when would that be, exactly? Or is it a case of "I'll know it when I see it?"
I have been the only bloke at many book clubs. We're quite useful when handling corkscrews.
Have just returned from my bookclub where our reading was 600+ pages of DESPAIR. I kept reading because I thought “oh this has to get better!” Nope. Far from a beach read! It’s the Trump campaign. The book at least had lyrical language and memorable characters! And Im going to read “Night Watch” now. Promise me I won’t be caught between despair and “oh God take me now!”
read this the first time
funny then too 😜
Joyce this is wonderful!!! Can I repost? Yours Esther
Esther, Please do.
Brilliant! Just what I needed on this summer-is-my-least-favorite-season day which is not so hot that I can't still suffer through hot flushes. I really loved your piece!
I do not care for book clubs, as I gather you do not, either. A friend took me to hers at a, shall we say, Brahmin book club at her, well, Brahmin club. I had not read the book, but I had plenty to say. Many women said to my hostess, "Oh, bring her again!" Fat chance.
Margo, I love my book club. They have turned me on to many more great books than books I could not finish. The latest: Night Watch, a Pulitzer Prize winner by Jayne Anne Phillips. If you have not read it, order it at once!
To do penance for guessing wrong, I will get "Night Watch."
But stop reading it 2/3 of the way through where it falls apart…
So I've started -- and the mother has been rendered speechless from having too many "babbies," but did I read you correctly to stop reading 2/3 of the way because "it falls apart?" And when would that be, exactly? Or is it a case of "I'll know it when I see it?"
Maybe it's more like halfway in. The "babbies" spelling annoyed me too. Still, she is a wonderful writer.
And obviously from Virginia, if not West. I will just finesse asking why, if she's such a wonderful writer, it falls apart *anywhere.*
Almost choked on my home made sour dough roll with hand churned butter and my own quince jam. You are so damn good.