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Reading
The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark - May-2016
I love her writing. Here she experiments with form and has the victim ensure her death is achieved. An odd tale, imaginatively told.
I Met Someone by Bruce Wagner - May-2016
On form Bruce. Happy to have another book from him.
The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn - May-2016
An excellent short story, with perhaps one of the very best ever opening lines: “I didn’t stop giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it.”
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney - May-2016
Ya know, it’s a best seller. I get it. It’s going along. Nothing much wrong with it. Then I was no longer interested.
Dead Wake by Erik Larson - May-2016
The shocking attack on and sinking of the Lusitania, which virtually propelled the US into WW2, very carefully and very well told.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace - May-2016
Not brief enough for me. I liked the film though.