Two to read
I've recently read two current British novels that I've really enjoyed (actually I'm only halfway through the second, but I expect to finish it this evening or tomorrow). I read Atonement by Ian McEwan last week; the one I'm still in the middle of is Spies by Michael Frayn.
I've posted comments on the Well about each of these books. I'll repeat them here, though they are little more than "reports from the front." Maybe I'll be inspired to write more later.
About Atonement, I wrote:
[A comment Jon Carroll] spurred me to try “Atonement,” which I liked even more than I expected. At first, I was a little disappointed by the ending (I was up extra late because I couldn’t put it down), but the next morning, when I’d thought more about it, I came around to appreciating it, too. and about Spies, in reply to a reader who reported he found it "boring":
[Richard], did "Spies" get less boring as you got into it? I'm halfway through, and it's getting more difficult for me to put down. I really wish I hadn't read Updike's New Yorker review; I think the charm of the first third would be in discovering the things he of necessity revealed in the review. I expect there'll be more discoveries to enjoy in the second half.
9:29:54 AM 
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