tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post8789022266563550665..comments2024-03-27T07:18:58.033+00:00Comments on Frances Garrood: On reading a new bookFrances Garroodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-84639650902307467302011-05-11T14:10:39.030+01:002011-05-11T14:10:39.030+01:00Thanks for visiting, Cuban in London! Yes - it is ...Thanks for visiting, Cuban in London! Yes - it is frustrating when I have in the past found some of his books quite riveting. But not this one. It's just too much like hard work, and I've decided to let it go. For now, anyway.<br /><br />Alis, I think you're probably right. I should have saved this one for holiday reading, when I have more time. Some books just aren't suited to being picked up for the odd half-hour; they need to be read in one or two big bites!Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-1457922572244658522011-05-11T07:58:40.851+01:002011-05-11T07:58:40.851+01:00Don't you find that, sometimes, you're jus...Don't you find that, sometimes, you're just not in the mood for a particular book and that, if you come back to it at a different time, the relationship might have a very different outcome? Perhaps the Gerald Seymour might seem slightly less difficult to keep up with at another time?Alishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406189984167289987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-71383633150994922822011-05-10T19:42:08.811+01:002011-05-10T19:42:08.811+01:00Ahhh... the perils of book reviews and freebies. L...Ahhh... the perils of book reviews and freebies. Luckily for me, all the books or poetry collections I'm sent are up my street. But I'm definitely with you on the whole 'Beginning a new book (reading one, that is; not writing one) is a bit like meeting a new person. It often takes time to form a relationship, and if that relationship is good, then it's really sad when it's all over.'<br /><br />Sometimes, I pick up books that don't have much going for them at the outset, but I persevere and very often my stubbornness pays off.<br /><br />I guess that the problem is slightly different when the author is someone whose works (although not all of them, as in your case) have appealed to you in the past. It's not just the 'meeting a new person' effect, but also the bagagge that writer brings with himm/her.<br /><br />Which is why reading is hardly uncomplicated and... oh! so pleasant. :-)<br /><br />Great post. Many thanks.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.com