Flamingo, pot plant, Middlemarch

Saturday's Guardian released its list of the 100 best novels of all time. From the way they released it in installments online, not to mention the invitations to engage: how many have you read? what would you put top of the list?, I'd be tempted to dismiss it as clickbait. I also react badly to the application of "of all time" to an art form as recent as the novel. How far back can you trace the novel? The earliest on the list is Don Quixote (1605, #26) which is fair enough, but "of all time"? Seriously? But I can't resist a list, especially not a list of books, so without taking it too seriously, some thoughts.

( Down the rabbit hole - and not finding Alice there... )

We could go on playing "what about?" more or less indefinitely. But this has gone on long enough, so let's stop there.