I quite liked Our Evenings (the Hollinghurst, it’s a given I love the Janáček). The “present day” portion is around the lead up to Brexit, and with the narrator being half Burmese, there’s much about the contraction of empire. Unfortunately I couldn’t give it my full attention—life events; I only read 35 books this year when I normally read 70–but I know I’ll go back to it. Hollinghurst’s prose is always beautiful.
Please no speaking circuit for Trudeau. He’s worse at speaking than he is a governing. But if he must do a tour, they should call it “Um…”
You're right. And some of stuff that's been coming out of PP's speeches is just lazy repetitive pablum. Hope they improve the level of rhetoric once they're not campaigning but actually governing.
I quite liked Our Evenings (the Hollinghurst, it’s a given I love the Janáček). The “present day” portion is around the lead up to Brexit, and with the narrator being half Burmese, there’s much about the contraction of empire. Unfortunately I couldn’t give it my full attention—life events; I only read 35 books this year when I normally read 70–but I know I’ll go back to it. Hollinghurst’s prose is always beautiful.
Please no speaking circuit for Trudeau. He’s worse at speaking than he is a governing. But if he must do a tour, they should call it “Um…”
You're right. And some of stuff that's been coming out of PP's speeches is just lazy repetitive pablum. Hope they improve the level of rhetoric once they're not campaigning but actually governing.