No, not a list of all the books that let me down, either after early promise or inexplicably good reviews or even books that were bad right from the start. That would take far too long. I think perhaps the single book that failed to live up to the hype was Kingley Amis's Lucky Jim, which I really disliked. I thought Proust was grossly over-hyped. I found a few things of value from it, but not worth reading that many 1000s of pages to get to those nuggets.
Rather I found out there are two literary events in Toronto, and I found out about them too late, and they are both sold out. I am not going to link to them on the off chance that a ticket or two turns up, and I will grab them. One was some author's salon over at Paradise where the main guest of honour is Margaret Atwood. I think the odds she would be signing anything are extremely low, but I would like to hear her talk anyway. In this case, I may just show up anyway and see if there are rush tickets. Interestingly, it is on the same night as a TPL Salon night, which I do have a ticket to, so I may just go to Paradise first and see if there is any chance of getting in, and if not, head over to TPL.
The second is over at Tranzac and it is almost a month away, but I guess because there are 10 or so poets reading, they all scarfed up the tickets for their friends and family. Again, things can be a bit loose over at Tranzac, so I will just swing by and see if I can get in in the end. I mostly want to go to hear Laurie Graham, who has a new collection out. I liked her Fast Commute quite a bit, so would like to see what she has been up to lately.
I guess I won't know for a few weeks, or almost a month, just how disappointed I will be in the end.
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