Three books with grey covers
Oddly I found myself reading three books one after another and each one had a monochrome cover. The Temple by George Herbert, 1633 Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote, 1958 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker, 1984 The only one I read to completion was Breakfast At Tiffany's , it was the only readable one. Although the Daily Mail newspaper thinks it is romantic, it is about a prostitute living off rich male admirers. The Temple is a collection of religious poems, and was interesting and moving in parts. But about 33% of the time I had no idea what he was talking about, the English language has changed so much over time. I'll continue to dip into it now and then. Very very Christian. Blood and Guts in High School I stopped reading after 20 pages, rude and crude drawings notwithstanding. It seems to be a novel of serial abuse and bad sex. It looked like the whole book would have the same tone throughout and tell the same episode again and again, so I stopped...