What I’m Reading - A curious blend of eccentric characters thrown together in a London flat across the street from Highgate Cemetary. An agoraphobic crossword-setting husband’s life ends in shambles after his wife finally leaves him, the owner of one of the other flats dies, leaving it to her twin twenty-year-old American nieces with a stipulation – they must live there for one year, and their mother – her estranged sister - and father are not to step foot inside; the lover she left behind is a tour guide for Highgate Cemetary. He, for reasons he can’t even figure out, hides from the twins when they ring his doorbell, preferring instead to stalk them all over London.
I can’t wait to find out what these crazy characters will do next with each other.
As part of a “100 Novels” project – which I will talk more about soon – I’m also reading The Tales of the Heptameron . It reads like the King James Bible – understandable with beautiful words, but not a page-turner!
