The book I finished & The book I started

It’s funny how sometimes I finish books before I even get a chance to write about them. This is why I’m doing this double post, so you’re up to date with my reading.

I picked up ‘Lanny’ in Oxfam, Greenwich. I read Max Porter a few months ago for uni, ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’, and I loved it. It’s dark and beautifully written, a perfect blend between prose and poetry. Its only sort of shortcoming was that not much was really happening. Not the case with ‘Lanny’. It’s dark and twisted and messed up. Fun fact: everyone acts insane except those who are labelled insane. I’m curious to read Porter’s third book, ‘The Death of Francis Bacon’, of which the author says it’s his ‘attempt to write as painting, not about it’.

Margaret Atwood is another one of my favourites, also discovered at uni via ‘Oryx & Crake’ (I’m always on the lookout for volumes 2 and 3). This edition of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been rescued from the British Heart Foundation, Woolwich. I read for about an hour before I had to go into a meeting and I’m going back to it as soon as I post this. The only thing that’s slightly frustrating is that Atwood tends to do world-building up until the very end of the novel, so you don’t really know all the details. Keeps you hooked, though.