One of the reasons I've being a no-show at our last few Book Club meetings is my ever increasing 'to read' pile; which, can I just tell you, is showing no signs whatsoever of diminishing. And that's a crying shame as I've passed up on reading some absolute cracking books. Sorry, Lucy. But I shall return.
I'm currently reading Saturday by Ian McEewan. Anyone who's read it will know it takes place over the course of one day. Quite early on in the novel I was put in mind of Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine (a book I first read in 1988) - one man's thoughts & thought processes whilst travelling up an escalator on his lunch break. Should McEewan or Baker ever happen upon this blog they'd no doubt be quick to tell me that their two books are nothing like each other. And that's fine. But I'm the reader and the reader is always right. This reader anyway.
So I fell down a rabbit hole looking for other stories that take place in a similar timeframe. And there's quite a few. Some I knew, some I didn't . On the back of this list I've just ordered a copy of The Private Lives of Trees by Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra. Yet one more reason why Book Club may have to be deferred till 2026. At the earliest!
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