Next month (October 2, 2021), we’ll start with a (frightening) short story, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Where will other chains go? Link up below or post your link in the comments section. I planned a yellow-themed chain but instead went with films, friends, reunions and reviews. My review of Reunion was brief and it makes reference to my equally short review of Akhil Sharma’s brilliant novel, Family Life. Most of the action in Life After Truth takes place at a reunion, which links to Fred Uhlman’s novella, Reunion. I loved French Exit but haven’t written a review yet… why is that?! I never wrote a review of one of my 2020 favourites either, Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.įleishman is in Trouble focuses on the continuing friendship between three college friends, which provides the link to Life After Truth by Ceridwen Dovey. Readers need not know anything about that literary-history byway, however, to enjoy this brooding tale.
Lawrence’s famously fraught visit with Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico, Cusk chronicles a fictional woman’s attempt to find meaning in other people’s art. Also watched this year was the film version of French Exit by Patrick deWitt. by Rachel Cusk RELEASE DATE: May 4, 2021. I enjoyed watching the film version of My Salinger Year earlier this year. Instead it’s to My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff – there’s a superb scene in Rakoff’s memoir that features Rachel Cusk. Yellow is my absolute favourite colour.īut yellow is not my first link. Honestly, I picked this month’s starting book, Second Place by Rachel Cusk, because of the gorgeous yellow cover. There is the erudition of the author’s Outline trilogy here, but with a tightly contained dramatic. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 3 hours and 19 minutes to read Second Place by Rachel Cusk. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 25 (180p) ISBN 978-8-5.
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