Haven't been reading much new stuff lately - mostly been dabbling and dipping into old favourites. Read Pere Goriot for uni - won't talk about it here because I know I'll be writing reams about it elsewhere ere long; lazily dipping into George Eliot's Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, which began most entertainingly but lost me a little when she started to talk about the salons of the influential French les précieuses and their literary movement: basically a bunch of pretty women who held parties for clever men and made them write fairy tales and love poems and stuff. Sounds like it must have been fun at the time - but deadly dull to read about.
Need some books to read! I'd really like to get my hands on Leave it to Psmith and Summer Lightning - I read the first Blandings novel ages ago and loved it. Why is Wodehouse not sold with all the other comfort foods? I could really go for some chocolate and chuckles.
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