Some thoughts on some random books

So, I’ve read a few books in recent weeks, and I have some thoughts to put down.

First, was New Grub Street written by George Gissing. #36 in Flavor Wire’s list of 50 greatest British novels of the 19th century, I was much more pleased with this reading than I had been with the previous entry, Benjamin Disraeli’s Coningsby. In fact, I kind of loved the first 4/5 of the book.

It’s a story about two young men in 1880s London who are trying to get into the British publishing industry. The...