'It's been on the 'maybe read one day' list for a while and finally got around to it. I knew it was a collection of interlocking stories throughout time, but the thread biding them together wasn't always clear to me. Certainly not as effective as similar books like Italo Calvino's 'If on a Winters Night. . .' and the superlative 'Charlie Cook's Favourite Book'. Helen and I went out together for the first time in far too long on saturday to see the revived 'Jerusalem' with Mark Rylance. It really was as incredible as people say, Rylance's performance was astonishing, no idea how he does that every night and twice on saturdays. Spent too much time celeb-spotting too. We saw Jarvis Cocker looking a bit lost on Shaftesbury Avenue (I wish we'd asked him if he knew how to get to St Martin's college), and Tim Robbins bumped into me twice at the interval. He's very tall, he must have struggled in the tiny seats in the Apollo.
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