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Just finished Xenocide by Orson Scott Card and started Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I had a tough time getting through the first couple of chapters but it's better now. And who knew Evelyn was a guy?
Oh, I'm so glad you're reading him. Evelyn Waugh has become one of my favorite writers. Once you finish Brideshead Revisited, I recommend Scoop or The Loved One. You wouldn't know it from reading BR, but Waugh wrote absolute hysterical books, and those two are side-splittingly funny.
I am very into doing political reading, seeing as Obama has just been inaugurated and for me it's the end of a long road of campaigning - and the beginning of a long road of actual work! Anyway, best thing I've come across as far as US political policy is this book: Thinking Big.
A book I am NOT reading is "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot DIaz. This is the most disasppointing book I have ever started, and did not get past about page 15. It is written largely in a non-standard English, and whatever I could learn from it about Dominican culture, I can learn from a book written without the stylizations of ignorance. It's like reading train of thought of a person who wears his baseball cap backwards.
"The Shadow Boxer" by Steven Heighton, a Canadian writer, who starts the book talking about his home town of Sault Ste. Marie, on the shores of Lake Superior. A bit uneven and ragged, and I probably wont finish it because I have to go out of town. But writers are always interesting if they write from the perspective of a growing-up in unfamiliar places (although I know Soo quite well, myself).
I haven't read all the previous posts so this may have been mentioned before, but I must recommend the Mitford Series by Janet Karon.....there are 9 of them and they need to be read in order. It is a series of interwoven stories about people and families in a small town, and it all centers around the local pastor....much of it is also about his personal life - he finds love at the age of 60. They are well-written and relaxing to read, and the longer you read the more you feel like you know these people in the books. I read 5 in 5 days and went out immediately to buy the other three.
" Revelation " by CJ Sansom. It is set just after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and is an extremely well written book, the 4th in that series so far. Sansom has a real knack of bringing history to life in all its squalor and magnificence. I can never put them down.
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