Rock on, Doris!

Ah, well. Contumacious once again.  I think I am now 'getting into the book' by Doris Lessing more than I had been previously.  Howard Jacobson once criticised books for being recommended simply on the basis that they were 'a good read'.  He meant by this, I suspect, that great literature both required and repaid the effort that went into its reading.  I agree. Lessing is clearly a good writer and my enjoyment of her fiction increases the longer I stay with her.  It's harder work than skimming through a Dan Brown might be, but the rewards are commensurately greater. Rock on, Doris!