Deciding what to read next
Monday, August 4th, 2008 21:48![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeAfter three books about lonely people in a row (books S, T & U for the A to Z Challenge), I decided that my next read should be something rather more upbeat than a man's wife and mistress trying to come to terms with each other after his death, so I put "Instances of the Number 3" by Salley Vickers aside and went to the library to look at the V shelf after work today. As I've reached the stage where I am bored with the A to Z Challenge and want to get it finished as quickly as possible, I pulled out the two thinnest books and had a look at them.
The first was a book of Indian short stories (good) about alienation and exile (bad - more loneliness) so it went back straight back on the shelf. The second was a humorous murder mystery set at an academic conference on Edgar Allan Poe, and although the protagonist was described as a loner, that is not necessarily the same as being lonely, so I decided to risk bringing "Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans" by Luis Fernando Verissimo home with me.
The first was a book of Indian short stories (good) about alienation and exile (bad - more loneliness) so it went back straight back on the shelf. The second was a humorous murder mystery set at an academic conference on Edgar Allan Poe, and although the protagonist was described as a loner, that is not necessarily the same as being lonely, so I decided to risk bringing "Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans" by Luis Fernando Verissimo home with me.
