Seasonal Quartet: Autumn : A Novel (Paperback)

from Carmenere

Elisabeth Demand is a 32 year old junior lecturer at a university in London. By all accounts, her days, at times, are a struggle. Who can't relate to too much bureaucracy, no job security, high cost of living, employees devoted to their electronic devices when they should be doing their job, agin...

from dchaikin

7. Autumn by Ali Smith published: 2015 format: 264 page hardcover with a lot of white space acquired: Library read: Jan 28-29 time reading: 5 hr 6 min, 1.2 min/page rating: 4 Read this while home sick, and it was a great sick day read. Smith has an effortlessly clever writing style which by itsel...

from JBD1

A treat to read. Smith's delightful wordplay, her grasp of the everyday ridiculousnesses of life in today's crazy world, all of it. So looking forward to Winter, now!

from Crazymamie

"How we play is: I tell you the first line of a story, Daniel said. Okay, Elisabeth said. Then you tell me the story that comes into your head when you hear that first line, Daniel said. Like, a story that already exists? Elisabeth said. Like Goldilocks and the three bears? Those poor bears, Dani...

from SandDune

As usual, after reading an Ali Smith novel I'm left trying to pin down exactly what the book was about, and not quite succeeding, or succeeding only partially. And also as usual, I'm thinking that it would really benefit from a reread, not because the book is very complicated, but because it's ju...