Therapy is the name of a book I'm reading (by David Lodge). I'd already started it three times, but now I think I'll read through it. It's sucked me in, finally. In between the first time I attempted Therapy, the two aborted attempts, and my current, more strong-willed go at it, was Paul Auster. Auster's City of Glass, the Locked Room and Moon Palace are the best novels I've read that treat the theme of identity and identity-making. I also liked Auster's quick fluid prose (accelerates the narrative so that it doesn't get lost in its meditation on self), taken, I think, from the detective novel genre.
Novels Ive read since arriving in France (in no particular order):
1. The Art of Fiction, David Lodge
2. A Heartbraking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
4. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
5. Where I Was, James Kelman
6. Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will, David Levinson
7. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
8-10. The NY Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room),Paul Auster
11. Moon Palace, Paul Auster
12. Nietsche, Unpublished Letters (ed. Kurt Leidecker), F. Nietsche
On my mind:
A Tale of Two Cities
Walden
Amis's Money
The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury
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