Last night I finished this month’s book club selection, Loitering with Intent, by Muriel Spark. I feel like I shouldn’t say anything about it yet because our meeting is still a week and a half away. However, I found it very entertaining and charming (I mean this in the best possible way). I’m mentioning it now in case you want to read along with us. It was a quick read, and very much set in a particular time and place (London, 1949-50).
I like books that are very much set in a particular time and place. This is one of the problems I have with Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice — the only one of hers I’ve ever been able to finish, and it took me three tries — seems like it’s floating in the middle of nowhere/nowhen. There. I’ve probably alienated a bunch of you by confessing my dirty little secret: I don’t like Jane Austen.
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A knife in my heart!
I love Austen. It took me until a couple of years after college to read her, but it’s been true love ever since.
I guess I’ll let it go since you read other stuff, though.
I hope to get to the library this week, so I’ll check for Muriel Sparks.
Sweeping by- wish I had more time. Miss you and others!
Putting your book rec on my list
I, too, couldn’t get into J. Austen. I don’t think I ever completed any book of hers.
Mother of D’Arcy is with you. I’ve never read any Austen, but feel like I ought to…