Earlier, I posted that I had read The Every by Dave Eggers and found it punishing.

I am now reading A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius. It is almost inconceivable that these two books are by the same author. AHOASG is raw and unpolished, while The Every is a smoothed-out, emotionless book.

In between, I read Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s classic that I should have read much earlier, and Over de lengte van een gang by Herman Koch.