#60-41 on the Guardian's list of all-time best novels

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Just finished one, in fact

it's called All the Forgivenesses, by Elizabeth Hardinger. It reminded me a bit of one of my favorite books, Lamb in His Bosom, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1933 but which few people have heard of these days, I suspect. I read a lot, but I just think many of these lists are very subjective, based on the views of some critics or other, and I take a rather dim view of critics, as in, who gave them the right to decide what's good and what's not? I know what's good writing and what isn't, and also what I like and what I don't. Some books which are supposedly "great literature" I personally think are trash, one being Wuthering Heights. You probably don't want to hear my views on THAT book.