hmmmmm this is turning into a rather infrequent posting! can't believe how time is zipping along...... reading A S Byatt still though 'Babel Tower' rather than 'The Biographer's Tale'. It is quite a disturbing read, a book within a book, and I am struggling with 'the tale' as its exploration of human nature and its somewhat dark ponderings of cruelty are almost more than I want to think about. Something I generally brush aside, as it's too difficult to get to grips with really or maybe just too nasty. Byatt, though, writes in such a lyrical, interwoven and passionate way that I seem to have been pulled into these perorations unaware....