Oh dear god, have I lost my taste for fiction entirely? What's wrong with me? Why have the last 3 books I've read left me going "yeah, but..." and fussing about predictability and obviousness and stuff instead of being properly awed by the very fact anyone actually wrote an entire novel?Well, tha...
He was very concerned about David; the boy was withdrawn and vacant, not answering questions and hardly eating his food. It was more than the usual apathy, and Simon feared it was the beginning of a glazed semiconsciousness, a state he’d seen in others. In his head he practiced the piece he was t...