bound to please......

ok, so at lunch at work i am finishing, ever so slowly...the book of book reviews.........it is set up in such a way that i can pick and choose which 'chapters' i care to read.......i enjoyed the review of a book of letters between nancy mitford and evelyn waugh.......a biography of bruce chatwin....an adventurer who liked to keep a wife in a cottage in wales whilst he covorted with savage males, females, and presumably sheep.....from the tales told of him.....michael dirda says that i should read underworld by don delilo......and crime and punishment...though i will not attempt this book until amessiahcomplex says that it is worth my time.......he also liked bred to the bone....an old bookclub book that i never warmed up to.......one author that i am intrigued enough to check out on amazon is penelope fitzgerald.......an author who never popped up on the grid until she had raised her children and retired........i also enjoyed the review of samuel pepys's diaries........he may be my hero......he who chronicolled (sp) his every sexual act and bowel moment for 9 full years....for the record he had many of both.......his diary is a marvel of the blog handwritten and unedited.......he goes from the hanging of thieves to ravishing the maid and having his wife find them out without a gasping breathe........in fact, it appears that he and his wife had 'relations' more often after she caught him cheating than before.......go figure.......we own this book.....somewhere.....and i might just read it.......after i finish....pride and predjudice....which i am rereading for the umpteenth time........it never fails to amuse me.....austen has such ascerbic wit when it comes to describing the complexities of her characters.......i would like to think that i could have enjoyed knowing her...at the very least she had better penmanship.........i come to the crossroads in my life...when i am beginning to be unable to read my own handwriting.....such is the bane of lefthanders..........ah well.......maybe jane was a leftie as well......