My Weekly Book

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…

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