Comments on: Review: In the Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:03:37 +0000

In some ways I think I enjoy Long-Awaited Reads month more than December’s holidays. New shiny gifts can’t surprise you as much as the old dusty ones… even if sometimes the old dusty one might have been better left in their wrapping.

By: Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness)

Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:03:57 +0000

Since I’m a journalist, I’m interested in The Journalist and the Murder… but the way you’ve described the style makes it sound a little tiresome, or at least a book I’d have to be in a certain mood to really enjoy.

By: litlove

litlove — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:44:34 +0000

I did enjoy this but maybe you’d prefer later Janet Malcolm as opposed to earlier? Her book on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas was very good and more in the style of The Silent Woman than this one was.

By: Simon T (Stuck-in-a-Book)

Simon T (Stuck-in-a-Book) — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:51:54 +0000

I ummed and ahhed over this for a while in a US bookshop, mostly because I loved NYRB Classics and you can seldom get them secondhand over here in the UK, but a flick through and I really wasn’t interested enough… and, gotta say, your lukewarm response to it does make me think I haven’t missed a trick! (And fyi, I love your tags…)