April Books

[slemslempike]

April
The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg - Francis Wheen
My Idea of Fun - Will Self
Alice McLeod, Realist at Last - Susan Juby
Fat Like the Sun - Anna Swir
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place - E.L. Konigsberg
A Talent to Annoy - Nancy Mitford
The Skin Chairs - Barbara Comyns
Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography - Francis Wheen
May on Motors - James May
Friday's Child - Georgette Heyer
Mediator 6: Twilight - Meg Cabot
Seven Up - Janet Evanovich
The American Way of Death, Revisited - Jessica Mitford


I have inexplicably forgotten absolutely everything about all of these books. All of them. I think I enjoyed most of them. I find Nancy Mitford a bit wearing all at once. After reading The American Way of Death I want to get a copy of The Loved One, and I really liked Francis Wheen's writing. Um. I spent £45 in Oxfam Books the other day, mostly on a lot of Georgette Heyer books, so that'll be the next couple of months.

Comments

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

In Nancy Mitford's letters to Evelyn Waugh she says that The American Way of Death is 'all based on your book' or words to that effect. She also seems to have suspected that Jessica's husband helped her write both this book and Hons & Rebels. They had a few sisterly problems. The Loved One is much better!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Nancy had quite a lot of problems with her sisters in general, even before they started encroaching on "her" turf of writing. I liked TAWOD a lot. The writing sounds exactly like Decca in her letters anyway, though I think she does say in them that Robert wrote TAWOD with her, but the publishers said they only wanted her name on it.