More photos just posted on the folder.
We're only a couple of blocks from the hotel that features in Le Carre's "The Honourable Schoolboy," still his best novel I think. Speaking of good novels, I just finished Rushdie's "Shalimar the Clown," the sort of book that's so deft, symphonic, playful, passionate and rich that as a writer one simply feels like closing it and running up the white flag of surrender. (I have not done so: I am working on three books simultaneously, one of them a novel.) Mind you, Kerry was pointing out that our reading REALLY needs lightening up: "Shalimar" is all about the brutal destruction of "paradise," aka Kashmir; she and Aidan have been reading "First They Killed My Father," (Cambodian genocide) and I am halfway through the brillliant "Child 44" (USSR under Stalin). We should go looking for something by Garrison Keillor.
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I have tried to read Shalimar by Rushdie and after about 50 pages consulted with my Indian friend (a big Rushdie fan). She said she thought it was one of his worst books, that he has a tendency toward a good book and a really, really bad book. She recommended I throw the book away, but I still have it--hoping to finish it.
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