Wow, i was soooooo overwhelmed by the many post i've received already. 4 in total. There i was thinking i had done the blog thing all wrong. I quite like this blog thing.
Right o me dears, today i'm going to discuss how utter dull the 'Myself when young' actually was. I felt i had wasted £6 of my good money down the drain. The problem is, in London the libraires near by do not provide enough books for us and therefore have to resort to Amazon.co.uk, where i am keeping them in business. I really like knowing about the books Daphne Du Maurier had written as i really loved reading 'Rebecca', however, felt a little disappointed when she wrote her autobiography . I wish it was a book my library stock as then i could just read and give it back, but i've brought it and have to keep it now. I have only 25 pages remaining and plan to sit out in the garden and read it till the end as i want to get my money's worth. I will be of course, drinking a glass of cool cold water while i read.
Do check it out yourselfs and tell me what you think, perhaps its just me, but when someone writes a great book such as Rebecca, you expect them to carry on that style of writing. I think i expect a bit too much out of books.
Another book for you to stay well away from is, Sally Beauman's take on 'Rebecca' named 'rebecca's Tale' which i got from the library last week and had to give upwithin the first 60 pages as it was so dry. I felt it was a postmorden take on 'Rebecca', which gave it no commotion that du Maurier gives to her own work. I was though, impressed with Antonia Frasier's take on 'Rebecca' that she wrote, back in 1976, named 'Rebecca's story'. Its a very short story with a differnt view to Rebecca, which Frasier was inspired by Jean Rhys take on Jane Eyre. The voice of the first Mrs de Winter as we should all know of. Its so worth reading it. Even du Maurier was impressed on it and wished she ahd though of it before.
Goodness, there i go again writing about 'Rebecca', well i plan to now read something different, not sure which as my copy of, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which i was hoping would have come today. I'll now have to wait till Monday for it to show up, but do need to read a book in the meantime. I got from my local charity shop the other day, a copy of 'Gilead' by Marilynne Robinson, who won the 2005 Pulizter prize for fiction. If by chance, any of yous have read it, could you pass your comments on to me as i would like to know what others thought of it before i read it.
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