An anthology of 22 short comedic pieces, I picked this up on impulse at a UBS, because I'd never read any of the authors before (correction: I've read Wodehouse) and there were more than a couple names here that I'd often felt like I should have read, but hadn't; I was afraid they'd be weighty and, ...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-1963, london, britain-england, lit-richer, filthy-lucre, classic, books-about-books-and-book-shops, anarchy Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from December 15, 2014 to January 02, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vk9zsDescription: Long ago ...
I revisited Miss Brodie after a DNF last year - this book is among the Viking Top 100 of the 20th century. Spark was also a favorite author of an English professor of mine. I liked this book, didn't love it.Jean Brodie comes off as somewhat vain and self-important, constantly reminding her students ...
Grande classico fruibilissimo anche per un pubblico contemporaneo data la scrittura scorrevole (sebbene ovviamente ottocentesca) ed i temi estremamente attuali: il limite tra scienza ed etica e l'angoscia che ne può derivare quando viene superato, la solitudine, la diversità, la ricerca estenuante d...
After reading [b:Memento Mori|8086674|Memento Mori|Muriel Spark|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1272131740s/8086674.jpg|2934614] and loving every part of it, I was expecting this one to be as witty and as interesting as the aforementioned. I was wrong. There was really nothing at all that interested m...
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 15 November 2013 The plot of Memento Mori revolves around a circle of Londoners in their seventies and eighties who have known each other for ages, most of them well-to-do and suffering to different degrees from the common afflictions o...
What kind of person would go ballistic on finding out that the dress she was looking to buy is made of a fabric that does not stain? Anyone? Anyone? Nope, I don't know anyone to do something like this either but guessing from the way the story of The Driver's Seat develops, Lise is not like most...
This is a strange, beautiful, eerily elegant book. The premise is simple: several elderly British people have been receiving phone calls from someone who says, “Remember you must die.” How each of them responds to this message is the story, which is deeply humorous without being flippant.I was surpr...
I don’t know why I went on a bit of a Muriel Spark kick this week. I’ve read this and Memento Mori before; but it seems to be some law of physics that with a few exceptions, if I read it before my son was born, it doesn’t count. If I read it when I was a kid, I probably read it six or seven times. I...
As Candia McWilliam writes in her introduction, Spark's most famous work is as economical and incisive as it could possibly be, throwing its time and place into sharp relief and offering deep insight into teenage experience and relationships. It is a glittering treasure of a book in which, in McWill...
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