Book Club Suggestion: An Exercise
I'm about 50 pages into Atonement and loving it!
I'm finding McEwan's style of writing to be so lush and quite witty. So I've been finding myself marking a lot of pages to look back on once I'm done. My favourite so far is from p.17 when Briony is experiencing frustration while trying to direct her cousins in her play (The Trials of Arabella):
“There had been trouble enough already, but Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution only when Jackson began to read from his sheet in a stricken monotone, as though each word was a name on a list of dead people, and was unable to pronounce ‘inexperienced’ even though it was said for him many times,…”
As a suggestion: I think we all should chose our own personal favourite quote from the book, to be read aloud at our next meeting (first weekend of December).
Thoughts?
posted by MJ @ 10:19 p.m.
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