I’ve recently got back into the ‘the answer is never’ after a few years, will follow up with The Most Fun Thing once I’m done.
Recently read ‘the reason I jump’ written by a non-verbal Autistic boy in Japan a number of years back and am following that up with his second book ‘Fall down 7 times get up 8’ which is a title we should all be familiar with. Really illuminating and a great help in trying to understand my son - from an autistic persons perspective and not a clinical perspective.
An entire (admittedly tiny) book describing one sex scene was just a bit much. I know it’s all clever dever subtext subtext blah blah but it was a bit of a slog.
I really should get into literary criticism.
In other news I thought our nursery wasn’t doing the world book day. How wrong I was.
My daughter (16) is obsessed with Dostoyevsky. She loved Crime and Punishment and the Idiot. I should really give him a go. I’ve read Gogol - really liked the Overcoat and the Nose.
19th century French literature is my big comfort read. I can’t recommend the Count of Monte Cristo enough. Ridiculously entertaining. I also love Flaubert and Stendhal.
The films are even more drawn out. The Hobbit is a great little book with a clear plot. The film shoves in loads of other stuff and turns it into a 3-movie epic that looks like a video-game.