Stop press. It has just been announced that this year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Doris Lessing.
I have to admit that I don't think I have read much by her. A few short stories, I believe, and I definitely read The Good Terrorist, though I don't remember much about it.
My clearest memory of Doris Lessing's work was an attempt to read The Golden Notebook in my early twenties. I soon gave up. But I am older now, if not wiser, and with my new-found interest in mental health issues, I recently thought I should give it another try. It is sitting in my hefty to-be-read pile. Perhaps today's news will propel it closer to the top.
Three notable things:
1. I woke up at 4am today and couldn't get back to sleep. I ended up watching a Panorama documentary about the sub-prime mortgage market. Even that didn't send me back to sleep!
2. I'm having a quiet day and actually going to spend a few hours writing this afternoon, I hope.
3. Cally has just posted something fascinating on her blog. Go and take a look here.
3 comments:
Doris Lessing, sounds interesting, i will give her ago.
4am, yuk! Didn't Panorama send you back to sleep!
Crystal xx
Waking at 4am was pants. I don't even know what woke me as everyone else was asleep. But not even Panorama could get me off to sleep again...
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