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Weekend reading

Yesterday I quoted a passage from Esther Freud's new novel Mr Mac and Me, and Lucille kindly left a link to an interview with the author on Radio 4's Open Book. Do listen if you can as it gives an interesting insight into the background to the book which tells the story of the celebrated architect/designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh's time in the Suffolk village of Walberswick in 1914 and 1915, and his friendship with the young Thomas Maggs.

I'm about half way through and loving the book, admiring Esther Freud's lightness of touch, and fascinated by the portrait of Mackintosh and his history, for despite his enormous standing now, this shows him at a time when his fortunes were on the ebb.

That's my weekend reading - what's yours?

26 September 2014 in Miscellaneous | Permalink

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I took Wendy Cope's prose miscellany to Amsterdam with me....it's ace! And now picking up the novel I was reading when I left. Jennifer Weiner's All Fall Down. That's very enjoyable so far.

Posted by: Adele Geras | 26 September 2014 at 05:08 PM

Wendy's "Life, Love and the Archers" looks very good - I've read snippets.

Posted by: Cornflower | 26 September 2014 at 05:37 PM

I'm still enjoying Merrily Watkins but could do with a break. I'm hoping to finish The Prayer of the Night Shepherd this weekend because I'm itching to start The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Posted by: Sue | 26 September 2014 at 05:45 PM

The Signature of All Things is fun!

Posted by: Cornflower | 26 September 2014 at 06:35 PM

I plan on finishing up The Goldfinch this weekend; it has been an amazing read and I don't want it to end.

Posted by: Dorothy | 26 September 2014 at 07:27 PM

Glad to know it's so good (I've yet to start it).

Posted by: Cornflower | 26 September 2014 at 08:12 PM

Three on the go right now. Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell, Laughter on the Stairs by Beverley Nichols and Skeleton Key by Jane Haddam. Loving all of them but the Nichols is my first by him and I can already tell he is going to be a favorite!

Posted by: Pam | 26 September 2014 at 09:10 PM

Nichols has been on my 'must read sometime soon' list for ages; I MUST read him sometime soon!

Posted by: Cornflower | 26 September 2014 at 09:40 PM

I'm finishing The Provincial Lady in Wartime, which is wonderful, love the series. Then starting a re-read of The Goldfinch for book club. I'm looking forward to it second time round!

Posted by: Chiara | 27 September 2014 at 02:19 AM

I am reading Murder Underground (British Library Crime Classics) by Mavis Doriel Hay - very Golden Age so far - and am enjoying it a lot.

Posted by: Ursula | 27 September 2014 at 01:21 PM

I've made a note of Mr. Mac and Me, the cover is beautiful and I think I would like the book as well. I've finished J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country an hour ago, enjoyed that very much, and am still thinking what would be a good choice to follow it up with.

Posted by: cath | 27 September 2014 at 02:58 PM

Limping to the end of a not-very-good Northern Ireland thriller for book group, and looking forward to The Paying Guests.

Posted by: Mary | 27 September 2014 at 11:46 PM

I have a review deadline coming up very soon so I am finishing Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2nd edition, CUP, 2014 by Christopher C Davis.

Posted by: Dark Puss | 28 September 2014 at 10:00 AM

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