{"id":713,"date":"2018-03-02T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2018-03-02T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T21:13:00","slug":"february-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/february-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"February Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Rub of Time\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Martin Amis<\/h3>\n<p>Various essays.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wonderful on Nabokov, and Hitchens and Travolta.\u00a0 Made me buy and read the Saul Bellow at once.<\/p>\n<h3>The Adventures of Augie March\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saul Bellow<\/h3>\n<p>An almost perfect novel. \u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t know how he does this.\u00a0 I can understand how Dickens writes, how Jane Austen achieves her effects, but this pours out like poetry.\u00a0 Quite extraordinary.\u00a0\u00a0 I see now how Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens became such fans of his work.\u00a0 I\u2019m about halfway through, and dreading it coming to a close.\u00a0\u00a0 I think one of the finest books I have ever read.<\/p>\n<h3>The Angel Esmeralda\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don Delillo<\/h3>\n<p>Nine stories.\u00a0\u00a0 Exquisite.<\/p>\n<h3>Playback\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Raymond Chandler<\/h3>\n<p>Almost perfect.\u00a0 A continuous pursuit of the mysterious lady who arrives on the train in LA.<\/p>\n<h3>The Monk of Mokha\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dave Eggers<\/h3>\n<p>A tale of coffee in the Yemen.<\/p>\n<h3>Maigret Goes to School\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h3>\n<p>A school teacher from La Rochelle seeks help in a murder.<\/p>\n<h3>Great Contemporaries\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Winston Churchill<\/h3>\n<p>Published in 1938 Churchill is the best prose writer of the twentieth century. \u00a0Fascinating people here from Hitler to H.G.Wells.<\/p>\n<h3>Righteous\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Ide<\/h3>\n<p>An IQ Novel.\u00a0\u00a0 Having been bowled over by his debut I had to immediately send off for this his second novel.\u00a0\u00a0 Obviously he spent ten years on the first, and this can\u2019t quite follow it, but he is the real thing.<\/p>\n<h3>Maigret\u2019s Mistake\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h3>\n<p>A charismatic brain surgeon and the death of a mysterious young woman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rub of Time\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Martin Amis Various essays.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wonderful on Nabokov, and Hitchens and Travolta.\u00a0 Made me buy and read the Saul Bellow at once. 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