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January 10, 2008
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
I am planning to read buckets of novels this year. And to take as long as I want to on my own novel. Chilling out, in other words.
Meanwhile I have been reading:
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt -- Slow beginning. But this is a wonderful book with keenly drawn characters. Leavitt pulls off a recreation of the period--seen from the perspective of the mathematician G.H. Hardy and creates a finely woven drama when Hardy brings a self-taught mathematician, Ramanujan, to England. One might be tempted to think the cool tto almost cold ones of the prose might create a damper on reader attention but I was pulled in slowly into this world, mathematics equations notwithstanding!
On the opposite end ot the scale, there was TC Boyle's Talk Talk. A page turner. This is one author who knows how to plot. I raced through and when I finished, I had the same feeling I get when I've overindulged in sweet treats!
Posted by girija at January 10, 2008 06:10 PM