I hesitate to rate this because I had such mixed feelings about it. As I often do, I read the reviews of the book before reading it, and immediately thought that it sounded very 'difficult' and 'clever', and upon reading the preface ,I was not reassured, but I ploughed on and made it to the end. Unf...
Other thoughts/reviews:Frisbee: A Book Journal: http://frisbeebookjournal.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/doris-lessings-the-golden-notebook/http://frisbeebookjournal.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/doris-lessings-the-golden-notebook/
On order. Apparently, I'm living this book right now. I not only keep different notebooks for different things (reading, writing, journal), I keep different blogs for different things. I am a fragmented woman in need of reunification.
`The Golden Notebook` is a 1962 novel by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing.Set in 1957 at the height of the Cold War, Anna Wulf is a single mother as well as a novelist with writer's block.Her life is falling apart. She records her experiences in four coloured notebooks. The black not...
I was discussing Flaubert the other day with notgettingenough, and remarked on how surprisingly different all his books are. Salammbô, as I say in my review, is completely different from Madame Bovary. La Tentation de Saint Antoine, which I'm currently reading, is completely different from both of t...
Anna is a novelist with writer's block. She keeps a set of notebooks in which she records her own life, observations on the Communist Party of 1950s Britain, potential novel ideas, and her business dealings. The book moves back and forth between the notebooks, giving the reader her views of internat...
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