Note ye, note ye, that The Morning News and Powells Books are having the First Annual Tournament of Books.
I'm sure everyone in Australia will know once I post this ( Yeah!) and remember their Camelot choruses too.
You can find the brackets of jousting books here at The Morning News. A full explanation of this fun concept is offered here.
Given that Australians are in the grip of fourth round tennis fever here, a book tournament is probably just what the doctor ordered. But hang on, where's our Alicia? and our Lleyton?? Que??
3 comments:
Read your comments on my buddy Jon's jebi_se.blogspot and just have to ask you, what type novels does your hubby read? As long as we are reading anything at all in this day and age, that is a grand thing. Jon, myself and some tohers have an online book club through yahoo called samizdat. We will be reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell next. Reading is good for the soul. I like your blog layout and subjects. Cheers, Edward http://edwardparish.blogspot.com/
Isn't it odd how these sinuous trails reach akimbo? It appears my friend Ed has struck here, exhibiting more zeal than my own Oblomovian soul. I have never read that tome but i own it. As you noted, so little time.
Oh and thanks for that badge of shame, my copy of the Recognitions is in my truck, mocking me with a quotidian familiarity (wink). It was question of too many irons in the fire, I suppose. People were blazing along and I felt that the density of Gaddis merited a slower approach and then, well, I went on holiday and became distracted. . .It is quite nice to read in tandem. Allow me to tip my hat (should i own one) and wish you all the best. cheers - jon
Wow! thanks for the visits gentlemen. And the kind invitation, Ed.
In reply, my husband reads a lot of tax law during the day and relies on me to offer synopses of literary brouhahas when he's in the mood, or has heard mutters in the Financial Review. However he has read Geoffrey Blainey's Short History of the World over the hols. In living memory he's read some Oz authors and a few American standards, but nothing highly experimental, although I did give him One Hundred Years of Solitude as a gift once (unread). In hindsight that might have put him off some of the hairier stuff I read.
I think we drive our kids a bit nuts actually - we live in our heads quite a lot, and they are pretty lively young adults. Hence the blogging, it means they understand at least 75% of what I am talking about most of the time, and gets it out of my system elsewhere.
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