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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Nico Lee An odd mix. John Collier's 'His Monkey Wife, Or, Married to a Chimp' as I really enjoyed getting to re-read his 'Fancies and Goodnights' recently. I'd…moreAn odd mix. John Collier's 'His Monkey Wife, Or, Married to a Chimp' as I really enjoyed getting to re-read his 'Fancies and Goodnights' recently. I'd leant the 'Fancies' book to a friend when at University. Never got it back. Then forgot about it. Every few years I'd think, 'What was that book and who was the author? You know, the one with the short story that they very, very, very loosely based the film Mannequin on..?' Then the wonders of the internet finally enabled it to be tracked down, even with me forgetting the author's name. So, anyway, I thought I'd try his monkey novel which for years I'd conflated with the film 'Max Mon Amour'- where Charlotte Rampling falls in love with a chimp. Next up, 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist'- which my, now Daily Mail reading, mother has been banging on at me to read for many years. I suspect I will not be dazzled by it's prose, but will end up blubbing because of it's subject matter. Followed by Joseph Heller's 'Something Happened', which I'm fairly convinced I must have read as a young teenager, but now, for the life of me, I cannot remember anything about. I think if I did I might not bother. Yet it's that vague suspicion I might be dissapointed that compels me to persist, somehow... and there is a 'Catch 22' in here somewhere, but I haven't quite teased it out of this mess. Oh and, kid you not, 'War and Peace', as I'm sick of just using it as a yardstick for length and actually want to find out what all the fuss is about, especially as I really enjoyed, if that's the right word, 'Resurrection'. Besides it's no use using it as a byword for very long if you've already read Proust.(less)

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Nico Lee I only write when I want to. My novel 'A Good Lie Ain't Easy' is standard novel length. 63,000 words. It took quite a while to edit, but I wrote it in…moreI only write when I want to. My novel 'A Good Lie Ain't Easy' is standard novel length. 63,000 words. It took quite a while to edit, but I wrote it in one and a half weeks. When I get the desire to write it pours out of me. Can't stop it. I could lie, and say I can't imagine sitting at a desk everyday, saying I must write x amount of words by midday, but I can imagine that, as I've done that. Just not for a novel. But that's not neccesarily art. Or rather you can get art from it, but the very best feeling is when you can't stop yourself, when you're compelled to produce. If I had to write prose when I wasn't interested in writing prose? My answer would be do other stuff, eventually something will make you think, will set off the spark again. If it doesn't, then maybe it's just that part of your life is, at least for the time being, over. I work part-time doing other stuff, so I'm not relying on having to write- I'd imagine if you are, and you have deadlines, that's a whole other set of problems. Don't get me wrong, it's a set I'd gladly give up my current job for.(less)

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I've answered some author questions. Just because it makes me feel big and clever. Perhaps you have some you could pose to me? If you want to know my inside trouser leg measurement or why do birds suddenly appear everytime you are near, then fire away...

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“Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

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