These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Marnie: by Winston Graham.
One feels a surprising anxiety for the poor unfortunate girl caught between her past - which one presumes cannot have been choice as much as concatenation of circumstances not of her choice, which she dealt with by stealing and so forth as a strategy for survival. Now, she is not only married to a wealthy man who loves her, but she loves him and would rather not lose him - and he is finding out about her. the only other source of strength for her is the horse, and she could die in an accident