Reading other people reading

Jonathan’s actually finished reading The Fall of Light now. He said he really liked it. I hope he’s not just saying that for the sake of marital harmony.

Oh, and Lydia Davis is a revelation. I’d never heard of her until a friend lent me her collected stories a few months ago, and then she went on to win the Man Booker prize. I was just listening to Breaking it Down on the Guardian Fiction podcast – her tone is wonderful. The story is bursting with sensuality and regret and misunderstandings and longing. Some of the stories are incredibly short but they contain so much.