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I have The Historian on my shelf, haven't felt inspired to read it...maybe I'll give it another look.
Just finished East of Eden. Don't know why it has taken me this long to read, I really enjoyed it!
Now tomorrow I can open Under the Dome.
It took me about 100 pages to really start liking The Historian. So if you do pick it up and don't like it, or are confused at first, give it a chance. It gets better.
Presently reading, Everthing Asian, by Sung J. Woo. A coming of age book told mostly through the eyes of a 12 year old, Korean boy. The story pretty much covers difficulties of immagrant families adjusting to new cultures. I am finding the story to be quite interesting and insightful. Reading this book has already opened my eyes to some things about a different culture. Though slow at times, just that fact that I've gained some knowledge, has made what's lacking, worth reading through those parts of the book.
The past month has not been easy for me to find something that held my attention through more than one chapter. I tried quite a few books that were supposedly great reads and just found them totally boring. To name a couple off the top of my head, Doghead, and Teathered. So, having made it to at least the fifth or sixth chapter of Everything Asian, I'm thrilled.
I have The Historian on my shelf, haven't felt inspired to read it...maybe I'll give it another look.
Just finished East of Eden. Don't know why it has taken me this long to read, I really enjoyed it!
Now tomorrow I can open Under the Dome.
Back in the 90's I picked up a copy of East of Eden by mistake, was looking for Exit to Eden. LOL. Duh me. Anyway, it was one of the best mistakes of my life. East of Eden is of my favorite reads from the past.
Back in the 90's I picked up a copy of East of Eden by mistake, was looking for Exit to Eden. LOL. Duh me. Anyway, it was one of the best mistakes of my life. East of Eden is of my favorite reads from the past.
LOL...I made the opposite mistake a few years back...imagine my surprise!!! I thought the cover didn't look right!!
Just reached "part 2" of "Master & Margarita". We read/translate about a page a day. Bulgakov is probably my favorite author by now.
But I still like Pelevin and Euroveev, so don't think I'm getting uppity and only reading classics...
On a recent plane flight I read "Shop Class as Soulcraft". I highly recommend it as well. I'm crap at remembering names so can't recall the author, but if you Google the title you will find him.
Yesterday I picked up The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and it is a little confusing/hard getting into it.
Stay with it, Miguel's Mom. You will begin to figure it out. I really like Zusak's style, and the voice(s) of his narrator(s). I would have included The Book Thief in a 10th grade Holocaust unit, if I were still teaching. Interesting perspective.
I also recently finished Zusak's I am the Messenger for discussion in a Book Club, and none of us could really agree upon the ending, or all of 'the message.' It was great, too -- having been a HS English teacher, I really enjoyed his 19-year-old protagonist. Such a believable narrator, even if a bit of an odd story.
Just about everyone I know who has read Larsson's books are mightily impressed with them. They can be a bit difficult to "get in to", however, combination of unfamiliar Swedish customs, names, places, etc., that takes a little while to get used to, and the fact that in Dragon, at least, the character of the main protagnist, Lisbeth Salander, is developed rather slowly. . . once you start getting to know her, however, the facination sets in. By the end of the second book, I was totally "in love" with her!
When I started searching online for Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and discovered it is the first in a trilogy, I couldn't help but wonder why the group chose this work. Does it stand alone?
We chose George Eliot's Middlemarch for April, and I recall how tedious I found it as a college student. Having been married now for 25 years, I think I will see it in an entirely different perspective, and am actually looking forward to tackling it again.
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