Tuesday, December 03, 2002

ok, so when i tried to blog this morning- publishing was inexplicably unavailable- luckily i discovered this before i wrote one single word......i am reading a wonderful book that i bought off a sales table last weekend. i bought it solely based on the name----hotel du lac-----and the cover art. turns out that it won the booker prize in the early 80's so it has a pedigree of sorts. i understand that picking books based on cover art and title is akin to picking race horse bets based on jockey and the color of the racing silks.....sometimes you get lucky.......this book is about a popular british novelist who has to 'rest on the continent' for awhile after her affair with a married man is discovered......though the checks in under her real name, rather than her pen name, people will certainly figure out who she is, even in this proper swiss hotel on the lake. while my description is rather plain, her prose is compelling. this has become a wonderful 'bathtub' book, and goes well with a glass of australian white..........

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