I read this transcendent novel over the holidays. It takes place on a secluded estate in the South West of England, written as a fictional journal. I loved it.
Tag: Brian
What I’m reading and new books
I introduced Jeremy Cooper's novel Brian a while ago here on The Longest Chapter, eager to read it then but, as happens, left it waiting among the reading table stacks. But I believe some books "know" when the time is right to be read, as if stepping forward just when we need that one story … Continue reading What I’m reading and new books
A 1927 bestseller, film criticism, and Alice McDermott
There’s a sea of blue in these dust jackets, which I noticed when placing the books together on my dining room table. All fiction, that too a commonality, but the plots and settings of these three novels vary widely. Two I’ve read and highly recommend. The third entices.
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