Marmontel, Harding

Since my last post, I've read two issues of The Economist, an issue of Eclectic Reading, and an issue of Hello Canada.

I read Marmontel's Memoires. I thought they were inadvertently funny about how everything, right down to the French Revolution, is about him, and how well Voltaire thought of him. I thought the most interesting part was his interactions with Voltaire, and all the catty things Voltaire said about Rousseau. Gotta love those literary feuds.

I also read, but didn't much like Tinkers by Paul Harding. It was written in reverse chronological order, which is uncommon, and the style was good, but it failed to engage me.