Tuesday, 21 February 2017

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  

This was not an easy read but wow what a beautiful one!
It is complicated by an interweaving of narrative and personal reflection and as a result it is difficult to discern who is thinking what and which thoughts are the result of whom.

Sunday, 19 February 2017

The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene



    

I really enjoyed this novel. It is a powerful, thought provoking and deeply profound novel about love and catholic guilt set amongst British colonial settlers in West Africa during the Second World War.
It is a tragedy where Major Scobie, a 50-year-old Deputy Commissioner, is
passed over for promotion and so becomes forced to borrow money to send his despairing wife away. In her absence he falls in love with Helen, a young widow, and his life is transformed by the experience.However, it does not have a happy ending.

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Thursday, 16 February 2017

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope wrote this satirical novel as a reaction to the financial scandals of the 1870s in Great Britain.  It is an archetypical Victorian novel, featuring the two big Victorian obsessions - class and women.
It took me a long time to read - it is Trollope's longest novel, but it was enjoyable!
I loved all the disreputable characters. I took an instant dislike to Felix - who basically spends everyone's else money and is a cad! One of my favorites is the seductive Winifred Hurtle, who, they say -- and I love this detail! -- shot a man in Oregon!