Obsession vs absorption
The Collector by John Fowles, Php595 at National Bookstores.
John Fowles’s first novel is a diary of obsessive love by a clerk who collects butterflies. It has a reputation for creepiness that we shall put to the test.
The novel was filmed in the 60s, starring Terence Stamp (Better known to us as General Zod). Mike de Leon’s Bilanggo Sa Dilim is also loosely based on the Fowles. (Does anyone have a copy?)
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey, Php595 at National Bookstores.
We’ve always delighted in the novels of Peter Carey, but if we’d never read Oscar and Lucinda or The True History of the Kelly Gang, we would pick up The Chemistry of Tears on the basis of its opening paragraphs.
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Henry James really tests our patience (We’ve never gotten to the end of The Wings of the Dove, we keep hurling it across the room), but the present-day adaptation of What Maisie Knew starring Julianne Moore looks intriguing so we’ll give the novel a try. (It’s not as easy to hurl a laptop or tablet across the room.)
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