I was never big on The English Patient. I did enjoy certain passages, and the characters made lasting impressions on me – I can still recall tiniest details about them, but overall I can’t say I loved the book. So I was not sure about picking up Warlight when it came out in June.
This year Man Booker Prize celebrates its 50 year anniversary of honouring best fiction works published in English. The event will take place on 6-8 July at Southbank Centre, London, but you can start celebrating now by participating in #ManBooker50 challenge: reading as many of the winner works as you can before end of May […]
Here is the story of how I happened to read and re-read a circa 1,000 pages novel this autumn.