Anna Quindlen writes happy-go-lucky books with titles like A Short Guide to a Happy Life and Being Perfect. She's all about inspiration, living your life to the fullest and cartwheels in the grass. So I was surprised when I stumbled upon her Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City at Booksoup on Sunset. This was not too long after I came back from working abroad that summer in the aforementioned London Town - and missing the place, of course went ahead and purchased the book, thinking it would help take me back to riding the tube, strolling across Tower Bridge, shopping on Kings Road, day trips to museums. It didn't even come close to satisfactory.
The writing's dull. The spurts of references to novels set in England and English writers feel disconnected, irrelevant almost. There wasn't any emotional resonance, just surface speculation and observations, like a badly written Lonely Planet, but with no pictures. Sad, I wanted to like this book!
currently listening: "Defying Gravity" from WICKED the Musical
xoxo,
Claire
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