Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

The Golden Notebook is a novel that enters the realm of what was called Lessing's "inner space fiction" (Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature) exploring mental and societal breakdown. The novel contains anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of Communism, the Communist party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s, and an examination of the budding sexual revolution and the women's liberation movements.

The story in The Golden Notebook is of a writer named Anna Wult who keeps four notebooks to record her life. In the black notebook, she reviews her African experience. In the red one, she records her political life, her disillusionment with Communism. In the yellow one, she writes a novel partly based on her experience. The blue notebook is her diary. In love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna attempts to tie all her notebooks together in one golden notebook.

Sources: Wikipedia and Goodreads

Doris May Lessing (22 October 1919 - 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature describing her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power, has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". At 87, she was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

Anyone reading this?

I will.

Just checking since nobody has posted anything after my initial one. 😀

This one sounds interesting but I won’t manage to fit it in but I appreciate there’s a woman author on the schedule this year :)

Lorraine, have you been reading it? You usually share great reflections of your reading :)

I started it but put it aside for two weeks because of a readathon. Should start again in a few days. I will make a note to share my thoughts afterwards. For now I’ll say it is not an easy book. Not the writing but I’m not sure what she wants to say. We’ll see, I have only read about a hundred pages.

this is on my tbr but probably not this year

We read this one almost 5 years ago. I thought some that are wavering on reading might find some of the comments helpful:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I am putting this book back on my TBR. I could not get into it.

Lorraine wrote: "I am putting this book back on my TBR. I could not get into it."

I felt the same way, and yet I've enjoyed her other books.

Lorraine wrote: "I am putting this book back on my TBR. I could not get into it."

Sorry to hear it didn’t work for you, Lorraine.

seeing this thread has inspired me to line this up for next year, I also have The Grass Is Singing and a handful of her short stories across various books