Three books

Not a brilliant mono image and not very original, but these are the three books I am reading at the moment.

McBride: This is the last of the six Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction short listed books that I have been reading. And I am finding it very, very difficult. Anyone who has even tried to read it will appreciate what I am feeling about it. Talk about pushing the boundaries of language! I don’t want to give up on it, but I am disappointed, as the event at the Southbank Centre where the authors will be is tomorrow and I was hoping to have read all the books. I may have another go on the train going down to London in the morning.

I have been planning to read some of the Penelope Fitzgerald books ever since I got the Hermione Lee biography for Christmas and then heard her talk about it in Keswick. Other books have come to the front recently, but now I intend reading as many of hers as I can. Offshore is a book I found on my shelves. As it is the original 1979 edition, I must have bought it then, perhaps because it won the Booker Prize that year. I am enjoying reading it again. An excellent writer.

The Silent Weaver is a book that I got hold of whilst in Hebrides and I am just finishing it now. It is the extraordinary story of a man who, whilst mentally ill, took to weaving grass. I have been fascinated by the story from the first time we went to the Uists, many years ago. I may blip this again at another point, as his is a story worth sharing. Incidentally Roger Hutchinson also wrote Calum’s Road, the book about the building of the road on Raasay.

So perhaps a blip better in content than image, but it is a contribution for the Mono Monday - Three challenge, hosted this month by Rainie.