| The Minatour Takes a Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill |
| Wonderful. The Minatour escapes Theseus and the labyrinth
and lives for 5000 years amongst the mortals. He works as a line chef in
a restaurant in the USA. Fantastic details about being a line chef, living
in a mobile home and the practicalities of having the head of a bull. Good
on ablutions and horn care. And very sad. Mainly about loneliness and being
ground down by life. Very fine. Wednesday, June 2, 2004 |
Star of the Sea
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| A fine book. Quite complex and you have to pay
attention as it is as several different authorial 'sources' recall the terrible
events of the voyage. Good on historical detail about the Irish famine and
life on board a ship in the C19th. Great on life in Newgate prison as Pius
Mulvey is incarcerated during his misadventures in the criminal underclass.
The different strands come together in the end in a satisfying way. Will
stand a rereading I think. Wednesday, June 2, 2004 |
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I read a lot. I usually write the titles of books I've read down in the back of a sketchbook but I might as well write it here. It is about as private I should imagine. |
