I finished Anna Karenina a couple days ago, and it was really,
really good! Then I started this book by Italo Calvino called Numbers in the Dark, and I'm not exactly loving it. I just can't seem to stay interested and I feel like I'm making myself read it.
So, back to the shelves it goes!
My options for books are:
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Mad, Bad and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi (It's about how women's creativity often leads to mental illness... I think.)
Or I could be responsible and start reading Moll Flanders. It's the first of the
nine novels I have to read for British Novel next semester.
What do you guys think?
2 comments:
I'd say do the responsible thing ... but I wouldn't be practicing what I preach. So of the books you've got, I'd say Black Boy, because I know my dad really likes that book.
Though from what you say, Mad Bad & Sad sounds like it could be good, too. o.O
So I say go with those two, and flip a coin to pick one.
I'm going to recommend a book that isn't on your list. Muahah.
I'm reading it right now - it's called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It's nonfiction, but the way it's written, well, for me it's a page-turner. It's about the revolution in cell culture when the woman in the title checked into Johns Hopkins for cancer treatment in the early '50s and [this is where I cut out a drawn out description that you could read on amazon]. I'm just halfway through, and it's soo good. And you know me - I don't even like science! But it's got the human side of the story, about her family, which is really what draws me in the most.
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