A friend has given me Vineland by Thomas Pynchon as a housewarming present. It's not the sort of thing I usually read, but I promised her I would give it a good try.
I've already mentioned on the Ship of Fools Book Club thread but I've recently read The Feast by Margaret Kennedy, and haven't enjoyed a novel so much in ages. I also read Bookworm by Lucy Mangan who is the Guardian's TV critic. Its about the books she read as a child. It was interesting on several levels. She enjoyed very much the same books I did as a child, she grew up in an area of London I know well and finally she is twenty years younger than me so a lot of the books she read as a teenager were the ones I was reading as a school librarian to recommend to my pupils.
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