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October 22
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Rachel
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Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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After the Quake (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
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read in October, 2007
Rachel said:
"I love short fiction, and this book loosely follows a theme of characters after the Kobe earthquake (in 1995? 1996?). Haruki Murakami writes elegantly and sparsely, and the characters in this book quietly followed me after I finished.
Murakami wr...more
I love short fiction, and this book loosely follows a theme of characters after the Kobe earthquake (in 1995? 1996?). Haruki Murakami writes elegantly and sparsely, and the characters in this book quietly followed me after I finished.
Murakami writes brilliantly on modern fatigue. Not the overblown French ennui kind, but day-to-day quiet "Is this all there is?" kind. There are strains of sci-fi and magical realism that don't exactly pump up the action, but they do unsettle the lives of the characters. Strangley, in such quiet lives, the disquietude becomes reassuring. Does that make any sense?
Anyway, the story "Honey Pie" is one of the best pieces of short fiction I've ever read. About a writer and the woman he loves, it's so easily true to life that it's hard to believe a story about it can be so moving....less
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Mass Market Paperback)
by James Baldwin
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read in October, 2007
Rachel said:
"Sometimes I read fiction I love and a part of me thinks, if I had writing training, and a good idea, and took the time to sit down and write, I could write this.
James Baldwin, in comparison, makes me think I should never write anything so complic...more
Sometimes I read fiction I love and a part of me thinks, if I had writing training, and a good idea, and took the time to sit down and write, I could write this.
James Baldwin, in comparison, makes me think I should never write anything so complicated as a grocery list again.
This book is about a boy on his fourteenth birthday struggling with his identity. Baldwin's writing turns it into a passionate, profound struggle with adolesence, family, American history, urbanization, sexualilty, religion, memory, and hope.
I could read the sentences where John interacts with his mother again and again and never understand how a writer can so perfectly capture incomplete communication and ways of knowing....less
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