Reading Slowdown
Sunday, October 26th, 2003 15:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeWhy did it take me so long to read the John Le Carre trilogy? I started reading them at the very beginning of October and only finished last night. I may have been suffering from book burnout after the amount of reading I did in August & September, or I suppose it's possible that I pay more attention to what is going on when I'm reading a spy novel so that I don't miss anything. Either way, I was definitely reading more slowly than I usually do. The middle book of the trilogy, "The Honourable Schoolboy", is almost twice as long as either of the others and I found its authorial tone really irritating, so it took me forever to read.
Local Interest: In the BBC version of "Smiley's People", the bridge at the Berlin checkpoint was actually Lady Bay Bridge which crosses the Trent linking West Bridgford & Sneinton. I think the series was filmed when it was a still a disused railway bridge rather than a road bridge, but I'm not certain.
Next in line are the Gormenghast trilogy & some Mario Vargas Llosa. I nominated "Death in the Andes" for the MF book club, as I am planning to read it in November anyway, but it doesn't look as if it's going to win unless a massed hoard of South American literature lovers descend on the book club board and vote for it before Tuesday (highly unlikely). At the moment "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold is heading the field.
Local Interest: In the BBC version of "Smiley's People", the bridge at the Berlin checkpoint was actually Lady Bay Bridge which crosses the Trent linking West Bridgford & Sneinton. I think the series was filmed when it was a still a disused railway bridge rather than a road bridge, but I'm not certain.
Next in line are the Gormenghast trilogy & some Mario Vargas Llosa. I nominated "Death in the Andes" for the MF book club, as I am planning to read it in November anyway, but it doesn't look as if it's going to win unless a massed hoard of South American literature lovers descend on the book club board and vote for it before Tuesday (highly unlikely). At the moment "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold is heading the field.
