Book recommendations
I am still alive and kicking, despite not having updated since the beginning of the month. A huge backlog of books to write up and, to get me back in the swing of it, some recommendations I just received:
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer. It hadn’t particularly struck me that I should read this before, but I am reliably informed that it plays the same sort of textual tricks as Tristram Shandy, and is well worth a look. I might try to see what more people have thought…
- The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly – Jean-Dominique Bauby. Wow. This will be heavy going – it’s the memoir of a French journalist almost completely paralysed after a massive stroke. And it’s a slim volume, as you might imagine anything dictated by blinks of the left eye – one of the few parts of the author’s body still able to move – would be. Really interesting – but you’d have to be in the right frame of mind to read it, I suspect…