I’m sure that a book that consists of a succession of first chapters of different books is extremely clever but I got tired of it, especially as the first chapters all seemed so stylistically similar: it didn’t feel like we were getting books from a bunch of different authors.
That would be hard to keep up interest - and, as you say, sufficient difference in the writing. Is there any linking thing in it?
I’ve put E. M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady on home. There’s been a bit of a Stevenson revival recently so her books aren’t too hard to get,
Ha, I haven't even heard of Stevenson, but I fall over Diary of a Provincial Lady in omnimbus form practically everywhere I go. (I have a copy of it, too.) Cross-Atlantic differences again, I suppose!
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Date: 2018-04-11 09:02 pm (UTC)That would be hard to keep up interest - and, as you say, sufficient difference in the writing. Is there any linking thing in it?
I’ve put E. M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady on home. There’s been a bit of a Stevenson revival recently so her books aren’t too hard to get,
Ha, I haven't even heard of Stevenson, but I fall over Diary of a Provincial Lady in omnimbus form practically everywhere I go. (I have a copy of it, too.) Cross-Atlantic differences again, I suppose!