Reading Notes

Finished The Unnamed last night. This is my second read-through for a review, but, unlike Valeria’s Last Stand, Dirty Little Angel, or The Legend of Sander Grant (all US publications), The Unnamed doesn’t get better on the second read. Nothing new springs out of the pages. I was hoping for a deeper, multi-layered read.

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Reading Notes

Woke up thinking through the puzzle of the Ferris book. What’s wrong with it?Can’t quite put my finger on it but there’s something that annoys in this ‘trying too hard to be literary novel’. I want to follow the mysterious man to a conclusion; I want to know about the court case & whether Tim [...]

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Reading Notes

Mostly unbookishness today, although I did read up on all the gossip in the hairdresser’s ‘library’ – why don’t they have books? Anyway, up to p. 220 on the re-read and Ferris is beginning to get under my skin. A book that I didn’t really connect to on the first read has grown into a [...]

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Reading Notes

The Unnamed just got interesting – took off into a gripping story.  Some of the similes are clichèd and the sentence structure is annoying, but the story now takes precedence so that these no longer matter. Where did it happen? On p. p.80, when Tim Farnsworth finally loses control by taking it. Ferris undercuts a brilliant scene between [...]

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