84 Charing Cross Road- Helene Hanff 5/5 This is an incredibly charming book and was even a literary sensation that I didn’t really ever know about. More about that in the follow up. The set up is that Helene Hanff, a television screenwriter with a love of nonfiction, especially British diaries, writes letters to a British book shop asking for various books. As she gets her books, as she writes her thanks, and as the book shop returns her correspondence, a relationship develops especially […]
“The most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking”
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
I think I liked this novella. I mean, it’s quite short (a scant…very scant 110 pages) and for the most part it’s whispy and floating and haunting in its narration. But I don’t think I trust a book called ” _____ Dreams” and then people describe as dreamy. It’s a little too on the nose and little too aware of contrivance. That said, it was narrated by Will Patton on my audiobook, and well, he’s perfect. So I can’t complain. Will Patton has that kind […]