Status Updates From Metroland

60s manic pixie dream girl criteria : suffering, soul, and tits

i feel like a group of teenage boys just spat on me

son premier livre _ curious

Hey this is actually really lively and funny and good haha

‘One thing about parents. They fug you up.’
‘Do you think they mean to?’
‘They may not. But they do, don’t they?’
‘Yeah, but it’s not really their fault, is it?’
‘You mean like in Zola – because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.’
‘Good point. But you’ve got to blame them a bit, haven’t you? I mean, for not realising they were being fugged up, and going on & doing it to us as well?’

[cont'd]

French writers were always fighting one another – defending and purifying the language, ousting slang words, writing prescriptive dictionaries, getting arrested, being prosecuted for obscenity, being aggressively Parnassian, scrabbling for seats in the Académie, intriguing for literary prizes, getting exiled. The idea of the sophisticated tough...

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After the brilliant "My Name Is Red", I was all set to read "War and Peace" but I soon found out that I was neither in the mood for it nor did I enjoy holding it lying on my side. And then I found another Julian Barnes in my bookshelf! I love his "The Sense of an Ending" so I look forward to the reading experience of "Metroland."

6. Object Relations

5. The Honours Board

4. Is Sex Travel

3. Stiff Petticoat

2. Running Costs

1. Nude, Giant Girls

Metroland Part II (1977)

6. Object Relations

5. Je T'aime Bien

4. Beatific Couples

3. Redon, Oxford

2. Demandez Nuts

1. Karezza

Part Two Paris (1968)

13. Object Relations

12. Hard And Low

11. SST

10. Tunnels, Bridges

9. Big D

8. Sex Austerity War Austerity

7. Mendacity Curve

6. Scorched Earth

5. J'habite Metroland