The Quick and Pithy of MY READING MIND…
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
If you’d ever thought to “record” an entire day, there would be a surprise over how much you thought about, observed, considered and accepted/rejected, spoke to people (and how, and of which topics), day-dreamed, detailed every incident you saw (or thought you saw), with whom you had contact and/or encountered … well, the list could continue. Never would it be exhausted, because something would have been missed.
This is SATURDAY, McEwan’s tip-of-the-hat to one particularly observant (though hardly decisive) Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon who awakes at 4:30am on his day off. And quite a day this is to become:
The run-up to the US invasion of Iraq makes its appearance.
His son, a blues guitarist; his daughter, a newly published poet.
His wife, a corporate lawyer.
His mother, not all there anymore.
His father-in-law, there’and’then’some.
And then something actually happens. That’s when this carnival ride rolls over the edge, and away you go.
-- Mark Beyer
author of What Beauty and Max, the blind guy, and The Janitor: Or, Dostoevsky in America. To sample and buy: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
#ReadersWanted #GoodRead #bookworm #booklover #ianmcewan #Saturday #bookclubs #library #booktofilm
If you’d ever thought to “record” an entire day, there would be a surprise over how much you thought about, observed, considered and accepted/rejected, spoke to people (and how, and of which topics), day-dreamed, detailed every incident you saw (or thought you saw), with whom you had contact and/or encountered … well, the list could continue. Never would it be exhausted, because something would have been missed.
This is SATURDAY, McEwan’s tip-of-the-hat to one particularly observant (though hardly decisive) Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon who awakes at 4:30am on his day off. And quite a day this is to become:
The run-up to the US invasion of Iraq makes its appearance.
His son, a blues guitarist; his daughter, a newly published poet.
His wife, a corporate lawyer.
His mother, not all there anymore.
His father-in-law, there’and’then’some.
And then something actually happens. That’s when this carnival ride rolls over the edge, and away you go.
-- Mark Beyer
author of What Beauty and Max, the blind guy, and The Janitor: Or, Dostoevsky in America. To sample and buy: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
#ReadersWanted #GoodRead #bookworm #booklover #ianmcewan #Saturday #bookclubs #library #booktofilm
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