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The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje
Interesting characters and their foilbles, but not a huge page-turner.
For the audio: Ondaatje is quite a somber reader, not quite monotone but very even-keeled that requires close attention or your mind will quickly wander. Also, because the sections start and stop "abruptly" in audio (other than chapter names), plus unlabelled quotations/dialogue, it is sometimes difficult to follow the jumps.
What surprised me is that some events seemed to take weeks in my head, as he describes them, but then an actual time frame would be given, and it would only be a couple of days. Is this because events are "memories" of a child and therefore seem to be temporally longer, or simply because on a ship you have more time so days are fuller than they might be on land?
For the audio: Ondaatje is quite a somber reader, not quite monotone but very even-keeled that requires close attention or your mind will quickly wander. Also, because the sections start and stop "abruptly" in audio (other than chapter names), plus unlabelled quotations/dialogue, it is sometimes difficult to follow the jumps.
What surprised me is that some events seemed to take weeks in my head, as he describes them, but then an actual time frame would be given, and it would only be a couple of days. Is this because events are "memories" of a child and therefore seem to be temporally longer, or simply because on a ship you have more time so days are fuller than they might be on land?