Wednesday, 5 January 2022

Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?, Caroline Roberts & Angus Hyland, The Book of the Raven: Corvids in Art & Legend

 'I'd read anything by Lucy Mangan, a writer for The Guardian for many years who is an introvert bibliophile with excellent tastes in culture, and writes on the topics and in the style I would if I had the talent. This is her first novel, and as a recent mum it's about the challenges of child-raising. Very funny, and at times was like a mirror on my own life (or how I would like my life to be represented). Worried about Helen reading it as  the husband is very similar to me and is not portrayed in a positive light. This book could cause the Eye of Sauron to be turned on my own slack behaviour. The Book of The Raven was a coffee-table book, read in half an hour or so. Today is my first day back at work and I've been stuck on a call all day so far looking at slides. . . 

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