‘I told you the truth,’ I say yet again, ‘Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.’
Last Week | Reading Schedule | Characters | Further Resources
Welcome to Week 6 of a slow read of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. I am your guide, Simon Haisell, and this is Footnotes & Tangents, a book group and reading community where we take our time to live inside great stories.
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This week, we are reading the chapters “My tenth birthday” and “At the Pioneer Café.” On my website, there is a reading schedule, with bookmarks designed by Lex Knowlton, a list of characters and a page of further resources.
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