What 調書をとる／予約する...?
By Celia Walden
...are you reading now?
I tend to have two or three 調書をとる／予約するs on the go. At the moment, I'm reading Kate Summerscale's The 疑惑s Of Mr Whicher ― I've always loved Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins's The Woman In White, so I bought Summerscale's 調書をとる／予約する as soon as I read about it.
So far, it's wonderfully grues
ome but recounted in this 冷淡な, methodical and deliberately plodding style, which I like. The Cluedo-like 地図／計画する of the house on the inside flap is a 広大な／多数の／重要な touch.
The 調書をとる／予約する I 現在／一般に have in my handbag ― it's a perfect size ― is On Bulls**t by a Princeton University professor who goes by the splendid 指名する of Harry G. Frankfurt.
It opens your 注目する，もくろむs to the modern world, 特に the world of 政治家，政治屋s. People don't 嘘（をつく） any more, he 令状s, because that would mean knowing or caring about the truth. Instead, they bulls**t, with the result that no one knows where they stand.
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... would you take to a 砂漠 island?
I should say Don Quixote by Cervantes, because I've never read it and it would last a while.
But I'd be more inclined to bring John Updike's 完全にする 作品. The Rabbit series is my favourite, but in his essays, too, he has this ability to reinvent the life you see around you every day, making even the mundane seem touching or amusing.
... first gave you the reading bug?
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. It was the first 調書をとる／予約する that really 始める，決める my imagination alight - and also the first to make me cry.
Even now, Helen's death scene could 減ずる me to 涙／ほころびs. My brothers hated it. Maybe it just 攻撃する，衝突するs that 神経 with women.
... left you 冷淡な?
Rebecca Miller's The 私的な Lives Of Pippa 物陰／風下. It's so much harder to criticise once you've written a 調書をとる／予約する, but although I read this in one sitting I became ますます exasperated. Miller has the same eerily flat トン as her father, Arthur, and though the central characters are powerful, the storyline seemed too contrived to draw me in.
CELIA WALDEN'S debut novel, In 害（を与える）'s Way, is published by Bloomsbury, 定価つきの £14.99.
