This is my Backlog book. I have been meaning to read this book for a while now. Once I started it, I realized I was rereading it. Which, I will say, fits this because I had forgotten about this gem called Chained by Lynne Kelly. To work off a debt, Hastin leaves his village in India to work as an elephant keeper for a man who wants to restart his circus. Innocent Hastin only sees a way to help his mother and ill sister, not […]
You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf – your book, your romanced autobiography.
CBR10Bingo – Backlog This will also briefly discuss the film version, which I also watched, but focuses on the novel. I chose this book for the Backlog section because I’ve had copies of several John Fowles novels on my shelves for years, and except for an aborted attempt at his novel A Maggot, I’ve never read one. I became aware of Fowles through a British professor who taught Modernism and also mentioned his Contemporary literature class which included this novel. I read several of the […]