Monday, 8 August 2016

About the Author- Reading!!

I've been super busy recently, so it's been difficult to fit in lots of reading. I'm really struggling to find 'the' author, and I think I've gone about it the wrong way by trying to read everything! To really get a feel of who the authors are, I read some short stories from a few of them.

I read:

Italo Calvino- The Queens Necklace
-Really like his unusual but relatable tales, especially with their dark twists
Patricia Highsmith- Little Tales of Misogyny 
-Like her humour and how outrageous yet down to earth her stories are!
I've also watched The Talented Mr Ripley, which I really enjoyed and found an interesting thriller filled with twists and turns and an oddly relatable murdering main character.
Neil Gaiman- How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
-Want something more 'meaty'
(and parts of):
Leonora Carrington- The Hearing Trumpet
-Like her writing style and found it really funny in a very dry sense, but I think I want something a bit less fantasy based
Susan Sontag- The Volcano Lover
-Couldn't really get into this book, bit too jumpy

STILL LOOKING FOR YUTANG- ORDERING OFF AMAZON
-The inability to find his works easily has only made me more interested in him!!

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