Comments on: Work As If You Live in the Early Days of a Better Nation http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2009/11/work-as-if-you-live-in-the-early-days-of-a-better-nation/ - the blog formerly known as bookish Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:45:28 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mooncalf http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2009/11/work-as-if-you-live-in-the-early-days-of-a-better-nation/comment-page-1/#comment-6055 mooncalf Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:21:47 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=1885#comment-6055 I love Poor Things and Lanark but I couldn't read past the first 50 pages of 1982, Janine. I did intend to try it again but I seem to have lost track of my copy many moves ago so that has probably put paid to that plan. Still, as I couldn't make it through The Death of Bunny Munro last month I don't think my tolerance for bleak despair is any higher than it was a decade ago... Chin up though, as we Brits say, it'll be much worse than this in January! I love Poor Things and Lanark but I couldn’t read past the first 50 pages of 1982, Janine.

I did intend to try it again but I seem to have lost track of my copy many moves ago so that has probably put paid to that plan. Still, as I couldn’t make it through The Death of Bunny Munro last month I don’t think my tolerance for bleak despair is any higher than it was a decade ago…

Chin up though, as we Brits say, it’ll be much worse than this in January!

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