Bookends now a Triangle

Reading novels is a passion of mine. I read 43 novels in 2011. Rarely have I encountered a sequence of readings that quite accidentally link neatly together, like has just happened. The bookends I talked about in the previous posting is now a triangle. The bookends were Luminous Airplanes, a coming of age story, and I Married You for Happiness, a reflection on years of marriage. I just finished the Man Booker winner, A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, which created the triangle. The first half of this book looks back on a young man's years in college & a close circle of friends. In the second half of the book, a diary left in a will triggers an interaction between the protagonist and a college girlfriend, from a vantage point 45 years later. In addition to a very good story, it explores how unreliable memory can be. The book has delightful characters & wonderful writing. In Barnes' novel we have another coming of age story, this time in arrears, and another reflection on a life, this time with an examination of memory in life. The triangle is complete.