Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Big Fat Books of the Year

With my wife in bed, let us say indisposed, I had the run of the house for much of the day, so between chores I was able to finish off the blockbusting thriller “I am Pilgrim”, one of the big fat books (in fact probably the fattest at 900 pages) on the shelves that I have promised myself to read in 2016; I have already made a start on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography and the next of Trollope’s Palliser novels, to be followed in due course by biggies from Kate Atkinson, Stephen King, Zadie Smith, David Mitchell, Donna Tartt and Margaret Atwood – and who knows I could then get back to Stig Larsson’s Millennium trilogy or even pick up the first Game of Thrones volume and buy a new doorstop instead.

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