Phil Albinus = father of three, husband, magazine editor, paperback hound, frustrated drummer, and aspiring novelist. I wear khakis - got a problem with that?
I seem to be in an unofficial WWI phase at the moment. I picked up Regeneration by Pat Barker at a local book fair after I re-read The Eye At The Door this fall. Haven’t read her final chapter of the trilogy Ghost Road but it’s wracking up the late fees on a shelf somewhere. Regina and I are watching Downton Abbey as the family and servants deal with the Great War. (Matthew Crawley seems to come and go from the front lines an awful lot - was this common?) Barker’s Life Class shows the lives and loves of a small group of London art students in the lead up to the conflict. It’s a soapy but rather restrained read and it thankfully glides along. As a writer she goes deep but keeps an eye on the clock. Also picked up Allan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child, a door stopper set in the same era. Edwardian?
And to think I can’t find anyone to see Warhorse with me.
