![]() ![]() But like anyone, I always want the next thing I do to be the best thing I’ve ever done. ![]() I don’t think I care much about being remembered, really. The book I’ d most like to be remembered for For the aesthete, however, Teju Cole’s beautiful Blind Spot is hard to beat. I try to choose gifts with an eye to what the recipient might like to receive, so there is no universal answer to this question. But I probably will feel a bit more contented once I have read them, which I hope will be soon. ![]() I’m not really ashamed that I haven’t read Tolstoy’s War and Peace or Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The book I’ m most ashamed not to have read I don’t know why! Maybe I’ll try again another time. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. “They tell me in the village that she carries a beautiful egg, sir.” best friends from college now on the cusp of 30, grapple. Jeeves advises that last year’s winner is an odds-on favourite. Sally Rooney's New Book Tries To Find Meaning In An Increasingly Troubled World. ![]() PG Wodehouse’s The Inimitable Jeeves – the story “The Purity of the Turf”, in which Bertie is consulting Jeeves as to whether to lay a bet on the forthcoming Girls’ Open Egg and Spoon Race at the annual village school treat. (That was one of the back catalogue too). I recently shed a little tear at Philip Wakem’s letter to Maggie Tulliver near the end of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Tom and Maggie in the flood in The Mill on the Floss. ![]()
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