What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell. This was alright. I love William Maxwell's books and his letters were all interesting since he's a good writer and that comes across in his letters too. I never heard of Eudora Welty before encountering this book but her letters aren't quite so interesting. They spent a lot of time discussing roses. All her letters are much the same actually, a bit about roses, a bit about what she's reading, a bit about when she's next coming to new york and can she meet up with maxwell and his mrs while she's there. His all have a little bit of extra hookiness to keep third parties interested. They were much the same age (born in 1908 and 1909) and kept up extensive letter writing from the early 40s through to the mid 90s. her's stop a bit earlier than his due to health issues. Towards the end I started skipping through the letters a bit (hers mostly) but it was towards the end that they started getting most interesting too, as they both started getting well on in years. A bit like dipping your head into old age and seeing a bit of what it might be like from inside. Even in his late 80s he was sending her nice letters, the last one when he was about 91, was published in some sort of a thing made for her 90th birthday and is lovely. so, not that good over all but it did get a bit under my skin all the same.
Next up - A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava which I've been about to start for the last couple of years.
Next up - A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava which I've been about to start for the last couple of years.
