Saturday, September 4, 2010

Mirbeau, Moodie, Durrell

Since my last post, I've read three issues of Eclectic Reading, two issues of OK Magazine, two issues of The New Scientist, one issue of The Economist, and one issue of Hello Canada.

I also read an interminable biography of Octave Mirbeau, nearly 1000 pages, which I finished this week. There certainly was a lot of detail for a man know for a play, Les affaires sont les affaires, and a novel, Journal d'une femme de chambre. I also read a biography of Suzanne Moodie, an early Canadian writer. Her colonial experiences were so bad, I wonder she wrote at all, but she published quite a bit over time. And I also read a memoir by Laurence Durrell, which I found frankly insipid.

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