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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
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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