OK, so now I’m avoiding the ironing. A good way to do it is by partaking in Katrina’s special Sunday Salon meme
I always meant to…
The author I always meant to read: Like Katrina, Angela Carter is someone I must read. I’ve got her fairy tales twinned up with The Grimm Brothers’ originals. I think that should make for some interesting times. Also Anthony Trollope. But there’s so much of his, that I don’t know where to start. Advice please.
The author I always meant to read more of: You can see the authors I intend reading more of on this list prepared for my own reference. Once an author is on this list, I do find myself picking up their work fairly regularly. One title to add: Charles Dickens – Our Mutual Friend.
The genre I always meant to try/read has to be graphic novels. I bought one once! The Maus trilogy has languished in the TBR for over a year.
The book on my tbr pile I always mean to read next is The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Given the accolades it receives, I can’t fathom why I haven’t got round to it yet.
The book I always meant to try again is Disgrace by J M Coetzee – because I’m the only person in the world who hates it. What did I miss?
You know what, I’m setting myself a reading goal. Sometime in 2008, I am going to remove all most of the above from my procrastination index!
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The Remains of the Day is great. Thanks for answering x
Oh my… Angela Carter and Kazuo Ishiguro are two of my absolute favorite authors, so your meme has drawn me in.
I’ll (completely unnecessarily, I’m sure) urge you to jump on The Remains of the Day (have you read Never Let Me Go? IMO, even better than The Remains) and Angela Carter.
I think that The Bloody Chamber is a perfect entry point for Carter… I agree, reading them with Grimm would be ideal and stupendous.
Good luck on your goals!
The Remains of the Day is one of my favorites too. Can’t say I care for Angela Carter but I’m definitely in the minority. I like the meme- I may use it myself! 🙂
Trollope’s Barchester Towers is not the first one in his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, but it really does not matter if you skip over The Warden and start with BT. Highly recommended. You can always go back to The Warden. It’s a good novel, but some readers have not liked it much as a first Trollope.
Angela Carter is brilliant and I know 3 other people besides you (of which I’m one) who hated Disgrace.
IF you wanted to read Trollope, I’d recommend The Barsetshire Chronicles starting with The Warden- once you’ve read the first two novels in the series it’s hard not to go on with it.