Thursday 14 January 2010

Filling the remaining gaps on my shelves

A few more books appear in my pigeonhole today: Jean Hegland's teen post-apocalypse novel The Forest, Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, which sounds like a teen version of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, and Alex Preston's The Bleeding City. This last is an advance review copy and the novel's about a hedge fund trader and the city's excess, by a guy who is a merchant banker with creative impulses. It'll be interesting to see what his insider take is (clearly he hasn't 'repented'), and I assume that it's one of the early texts in what will become a flood of Crash Fiction.

Also received: a CD of Morten Lauridsen's choral music, including O Magnum Mysterium - he's the post-minimalist composer currently reviving the genre. Not convinced yet, but it's good stuff. Don't worry about the lack of visuals - the quality of the piece and choir are what matters.

1 comment:

Some Chilean Woman said...

We sang that in high school...Oh that brings back so many good memories, thanks for sharing!