These last weeks I haven't read much but I finished Neil Gaimann's Stardust.
I have really enjoyed the book, a beautiful imaginative fairy tale. I wanted to watch the film Stardust after finishing the book but I didn't wait. There are so many differences between the book and the film. The novel is made of a main plot, the searching of a falling star, and several subplots. There are also several secondary characters interrelated through these subplots whereas in the film some of these stories don't appear and there are new characters that don't appear in the book, characters such as Capt Shakespeare, a role played by Robert de Niro. As I watched the film before finishing the book it surprised me a lot the end of the novel, but it was inventive and great.
I had also access to Stardust audio book read by the author. I love his anglo american accent.
Now I am in the middle of three reading projects.
I am reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. I am engaged in the Misteries of Uldolpho and Iam also enjoying the work of the Irish writer Ann Enright, The Gathering
The last of these three projects is quite a surprise because although the author had won the Man Booker Prize 4 years ago, I didn't know anything about the writer or her work. This is not an easy novel, because there is hardly any action and feelings surround everything. The lost of a loved one is the excuse for the narrator,Veronica, to explain the story of her family. This is the story of an Irish clan, with love sadness dissapointment, memory, secrets.. Through her prose, the reader is allowed to enter Veronica's inner feelings and subjectivity. I am enjoying this reading so far.
Fanny, Edmund and Mary Crawford.
