It is a novel with some pedigree - after all, its author has won the Man Booker Prize in the United Kingdom, and book awards don’t get too much bigger than that! However, I must remark with sadness that I was disappointed and underwhelmed with Elizabeth Finch. I read it in two sittings and the whole thing is less than 200 pages. Well, Julian Barnes’ new book Elizabeth Finch falls into the latter category. Such books tend to make for pleasing reviews, at least as far as I’m concerned, since I like being able to file my words quickly and self-publish them in this forum. However, sometimes I like short books, too - titles you can easily digest in a sitting or so. I usually like long books - books that you can spend all day under the covers with and be enraptured by.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |