"The Children's Book" by A.S. Byatt
I quite enjoyed this book initially but after three tries to get into it again I gave it up after about 50 pages...my limit for books I don't think I'll continue with. I must say I haven't really enjoyed anything by Byatt since Possession and Babel Tower. I think this is probably a very good novel but I think I'm just not in the mood and it seemed tiresome to me in the way Byatt can be just so tiresome. As an antidote I read the next Alice Munro story in the Selected Stories called "Chaddeleys and Flemings". Absolutely wonderful and not an ounce of pretention...just describing her characters and their lives in a most amazing and authentic manner.
