Wednesday, June 24, 2009

In between books sort of

Today I was rudely awakened to bring my son to daycare, despite trying to plug the idea that my husband could do it. I now have to go back to bed, because I'm working tonight and need to be fresh-ish, but since I got up and dressed I'm a bit too perky. So what to do? Sandwich and a cup of warm nutmeggy honeyed milk in front of the PC for a bit, of course, in the hope that it will help. I'm not quite awake enough for a proper blog entry, but I've been reading a bit so I really should. Perhaps tonight at work I can find the peace to tap them down. What I wanted to do today was go to the library to borrow something, but I don't think I'll have the time. Which leaves me with the book I'm reading, Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. Which I'm not sure I like. But given that I was actually getting to be quite a bit annoyed with how formulaic his novels is I should stop complaining and get on with it, since at least this one is not about someone remembering. Hm. You have until say six p.m. to convince me that it's not worth it/worth it a lot. I have also got Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss at home, which should be right up my alley but which I found extraordinarily hard to get into. Ditto for that one, regarding the convincing me that is. Chop-chop.

2 comments:

Johanna said...

Ja se karlar! :-)

Alltså, jag kommer ju ihåg att jag tyckte The Unconsoled var tveksamt bra, det HÄNDE ju liksom aldrig nånting, han bara satt i typ Prag (?) och visste inte vad han höll på med.

Det KAN vara så att de år av paus var precis vad jag behövde för att tycka att han var bra igen, faktiskt. Vissa böcker ÄR ju bra, andra...hm.

Hoppas du får sova!

bani said...

Tveksamt bra? Hmmmm vad säger det mig inför nattens läsning va va va? ;)