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mehitabels's review against another edition
3.0
"I was so tempted to object, to say that reading was the gateway of the soul, that it was an anti-clock to banish time, that it was a wand to give us the past alive and warm and softly treading in our palm like a kitten, that reading dropped over us a veil and spirited us into a harem or clamped us in chains and put us behind bars, that it fed us on the drugged sherbets of Arabia or the raw meat of the steppes - but I bit my tongue and reflected on the chilling horrors of New World practicality."
"As I lay in bed that night I couldn't sleep at all, so busy was I remembering all the fine sallies and piquant mots; I was twitching to the right and left as I chimed in with brilliant retorts, those inspired afterthoughts the French call the "wit of the staircase," l'esprit d'escalier.
"As I lay in bed that night I couldn't sleep at all, so busy was I remembering all the fine sallies and piquant mots; I was twitching to the right and left as I chimed in with brilliant retorts, those inspired afterthoughts the French call the "wit of the staircase," l'esprit d'escalier.
maiakobabe's review against another edition
3.0
Fanny and Romeo is about the romance of a freelance illustrator and cat who wanders into her life. Fanny comes to adore Romeo so much her boyfriend accuses her of emotionally cheating in him with the cat. It’s a silly funny story about affection and relationships.
neiljung78's review against another edition
3.0
A book that never quite absorbed me but I think it’s written in a way designed to entertain but also keep the reader somewhat at a remove. But with a poignant sentence here and there to catch you unaware - usually about love or sex.
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