Middlemarch by George Eliot

 

Got through 150 pages but then crapped out. Have already read four three enormous quite really boring novels this year (THE REVISIONARIES by The Revisionaries by A.R. Moxon, THE STAND by Stephen King, A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagihara, and ANT KIND by Charlie Kauffman).  I'm now officially too old to risk another.

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

Began it with trepidation - thought it some sort of English Patient romantic mystery.

Which it is and isn't. Hazzard's lapidary prose takes some getting used to, but the brilliance makes wonderful effect. Reminded me of Penelope Fitzgerald, with her use of ellipsis and understatment, and delayed exposition.

Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz

 

"Autumn"

"The Sanitarium Beneath the Hourglass"

"Dodo"

The Cold Millions by Jess Walter

 

Inside Story by Martin Amis

 

“After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship — marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.”