Thursday 15 December 2022

Avoiding New York.

I thought I might mention that I’ve suspended my reading of JP Donleavy’s A Fairytale of New York. (I made a few references to it on the blog recently.)

The reason is simple enough. When you become engrossed in a story you enter a different world – the world of the plot – and the early part of this novel is set in New York City during a bitterly cold winter spell. Given the discomfort I’m feeling in this (mostly unheated) house in a moderately cold English version of the season, I couldn’t face any more for the time being.

April, maybe…

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