Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Prime of Miss Jeane Brodie

Oh my god, I just found my new favorite older (ish) writer, that I should have read before, but somehow missed.

Muriel Spark!!!

Why do I not pay more attention to UK writers? JUST LIKE WITH MUSIC, whatever we're doing, they do better.

After one page of Miss Jean Brodie, I felt like I had found my new best friend. Oh I can't wait to slowly read this book.

In other news I have an excerpt from DESTROY ALL CAR at the awesome website io9.com, which is a lot of smart, funny science stuff, (like check this crazy Indian Terminator out here).

3 comments:

  1. An amazing book!! One of my favourites or as Miss Brodie would say the creme de la creme!! Her other books are pretty good too! Hope you enjoy!

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  2. Hey Blake, I just discovered Muriel too! What a wonderful writer. I'd known about the movie for years, of course, but I'd never thought to pick up the book until reading a fantastic book called How Fiction Works by James Wood.

    R.A. Nelson (Russ)

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