sounds even better once i know what goes in to it, yum... i will make it soon and report back. =)
as for Rushdie, i can't seem to keep track but i believe i've read only a fraction of his work, i wish my memory for titles were better though. i suggested haroun and the sea of stories to my boy and i do adore that book, it's unusual for him though. the writing style remains, but the subject characters and plots are woven very differently from, say, midnight's children, which is dense and twined. His nonfiction pieces (I've read snippets in books and web sites) show his pattern of thought and argument far more clearly than his fiction and are genuinely captivating. as for other novels, i believe the ones i admired most were shame and the ground beneath her feet?? They're both relatively recent ones, if I've gotten the titles correct, and I've found that his writing has matured and benefitted from his chase and final settling down, or at least the maturation seems to coincide with those events.
And if I may, I believe you live in the Philly area still, do you know of any good book clubs who might accept me as a reader? I haven't found any that appeal to me yet (and my sense of where to look for them is failing as i realize that most occur by word of mouth), but would really like a situation like that.
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as for Rushdie, i can't seem to keep track but i believe i've read only a fraction of his work, i wish my memory for titles were better though. i suggested haroun and the sea of stories to my boy and i do adore that book, it's unusual for him though. the writing style remains, but the subject characters and plots are woven very differently from, say, midnight's children, which is dense and twined.
His nonfiction pieces (I've read snippets in books and web sites) show his pattern of thought and argument far more clearly than his fiction and are genuinely captivating. as for other novels, i believe the ones i admired most were shame and the ground beneath her feet?? They're both relatively recent ones, if I've gotten the titles correct, and I've found that his writing has matured and benefitted from his chase and final settling down, or at least the maturation seems to coincide with those events.
And if I may, I believe you live in the Philly area still, do you know of any good book clubs who might accept me as a reader? I haven't found any that appeal to me yet (and my sense of where to look for them is failing as i realize that most occur by word of mouth), but would really like a situation like that.