Today I finally finished a novel which I have been spasmodically reading for the best part of three weeks - Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott. Having somehow missed Walter Scott out of my childhood literary education, it would never have occurred to me to pick this book up at all had it not been a sort of gift, but I am very glad that I did and will hopefully get around to reading some of his other works in the future. I probably didn’t do it justice at all by reading it in such a disjointed fashion and over such a prolonged period of time, but nevertheless I enjoyed it immensely (more…)