Showing posts with label Javier Marias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Javier Marias. Show all posts

27 Jan 2011

And then I began yet another book...



I need your help! Sometimes I get so happy when I get my hands on an anticipated book that I "forget" to finish the one that I was already reading. And this month it has really gotten out of hand. I have begun reading what seems like a plethora of books - and finishing none of them. So now I need your advise? Have your ever found yourself in this kind of situation (bet you have...)? And how do you handle it? All advise welcome...

Here is a list of what I am currently reading - shame on me!

Javier Marias: All Souls

Martin Amis: The Rachel Papers

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Iris Murdoch: The Unicorn

24 Nov 2010

Teaser Wednesday - suprise!



As a follow-up on Teaser Tuesday yesterday, I felt like doing another teaser as I am reading more than one book at the moment (actually I always am). So here comes a teaser from "All Souls" by Javier Marias:

"The more one knows and tells about other people, the greater one's dispensation not to reveal anutomg about oneself. Consequently the whole of Oxford is fully and continuously engaged in concealing and suppressing itself whilst at the same time trying to winkle out as much information as possible about other people..."