The other day I was in a bookshop and spotted in the sale box the hardback edition of the novel Jack by Marilynne Robinson for ridiculously meagre £2. On my day off this week I decided to read the novel and was pleasantly surprised to see, on opening it, that it had a ribbon bookmark and, moreover, was a signed copy! I think the novel was published a t a bad time and sales have been lower than expected. Anyway I read about half of its 300 or so pages (I'm not a quick reader but it contains lots of dialogue). One review described it as a Calvinist romance and so far I've enjoyed it - more in fact than Gilead the best known of the four part trilogy (!). I also watched a little TV and a bit of word puzzling, as it's the current craze. It was nice to have our nephew here from Cardiff in the evening. Nice day.
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