My favorite was The Goldfish Pool and other stories, which was hilarious. I don’t read a lot of fantasy so I have not read him as widely as I should. I suggested she might win a Nobel Prize for her footnotes. We will have reverted to the Medieval view of the Universe, that there is just us… The most amazing thing is that in the future all the galaxies will have moved so far apart that we will have no sight or knowledge of the entire universe that came before. The end of the Universe is fascinating and I hope I’ll be here to enjoy it. I first was amazed by her on The Infinite Monkey Cage. The five or six likeliest ends to the Universe are here simply laid out. Katie MackĪ fantastic book, which I had to read very slowly, a chapter at a time. The End of Everything (Astrophysically speaking). A Slow fire burning Paula HawkinsĪ thriller. They were being paid a million by Hello Magazine for the exclusive. He went to his room he was so embarrassed. He was humiliated by Iman seizing his camera and unrolling the film. I met this pleasant man at the Bowie wedding in Florence. I find fashion not very interesting it seems. I think he should try something completely different, though he will be known for these books. He tries to ring the changes on this one, but like all successful formats it becomes a bit of a trap.
I have been following him since his debut. (Like Zadie Smith.) I look forward to her next. This was all new to me (novel) but I found the non-novel better than the novel. Relevant to today with the possibility it was caused by a pandemic. I really enjoyed all the bits about the late Bronze Age collapse. I liked the stuff on the importance of the novel, but felt the story wasn’t up to it. Sally RooneyĪll unhappy love affair stories are the same… I really enjoyed the opening of this and then felt it tanked. Olivier and Marilyn on the cover, and you long to know what she was telling him in the Savoy bar. She tells the story elegantly with plenty of teasing details. An extraordinary sea change in theatrical history. The Theater was the first to have electricity. Far better written than expected I knew a lot of the early story about how D’Oyly Carte built a theatre and Hotel at the Savoy from the money he made for Gilbert and Sullivan. The Secret Life of the Savoy Olivia Williams His love affair with the actress, with children, and his cruel treatment of his wife. It’s amazing to me that I did a whole University Exam on Dickens and most of the facts discussed here were completely unknown. Wilson.īeautifully written, elegantly told, I loved this book. By Eric Idle, Novem12:40 pm Frostquake Juliet Nicolson