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Re: What are you reading?
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: October 8, 2022, 3:43 pm
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Has anyone read The God of Small Things by Arundahati Roy?
It’s our current book club book and I’m having a lot of trouble
following the story. Mostly I just keep reading hoping at some
point it will make sense. For now it’s just dark and
disturbing.
The reviews though, rave about it, which confuses me. I suppose
it’s another example of real literature while left to my own
devices I prefer plot driven books like mysteries.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Paloma Date: October 9, 2022, 1:18 pm
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[quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=68.msg132653#msg132653
date=1665261820]
Has anyone read The God of Small Things by Arundahati Roy?
It’s our current book club book and I’m having a lot of trouble
following the story. Mostly I just keep reading hoping at some
point it will make sense. For now it’s just dark and
disturbing.
The reviews though, rave about it, which confuses me. I suppose
it’s another example of real literature while left to my own
devices I prefer plot driven books like mysteries.
[/quote]
I had read it (well, almost all of it) for a book club.
Honestly, I didn't love it. The jumps in time were hard to
follow, the plot was heartbreaking and dark, and the characters
did not draw me in. So it was one of the few books that I
attended the meeting without having finished. Not an easy read
at all. I don't recall it having an overwhelmingly positive
response at the meeting, whereas we almost all adored The
Namesake.
Just as an aside, a lot of publications were not happy with the
selection of The God of Small Things as a Booker Prize winner.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: kkt Date: October 10, 2022, 6:56 pm
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Margaret Atwood, Penelopiade.
The story of Penelope from the Odyssey, and the maids Odysseus
killed, as told by Penelope in the afterlife. A wonderful
novella with a lot of humor in the writing. Atwood's version
makes a good deal more sense than Homer's version.
#Post#: 135480--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
By: LesserGoddess Date: October 19, 2022, 5:22 pm
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Lord of the Rings.
"The world is changed.
I feel it in the water.
I feel it in the earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. "
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Re: What are you reading?
By: nsw11 Date: November 20, 2022, 1:40 pm
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I just finished Nala's World. A great story for people who love
cats or adventure style travel. A guy who is cycling around the
world finds a kitten in the mountains of Bosnia and adopts her
(or becomes her slave :D). He's on a lot of social media but it
doesn't hold me like the book did.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Aardtacha Date: November 20, 2022, 4:44 pm
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Rereading Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds for the umpteenth
time. One of my favorite books, and one I have long thought
would make a good movie.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: LesserGoddess Date: November 20, 2022, 6:54 pm
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[quote author=nsw11 link=topic=68.msg144218#msg144218
date=1668973240]
I just finished Nala's World. A great story for people who love
cats or adventure style travel. A guy who is cycling around the
world finds a kitten in the mountains of Bosnia and adopts her
(or becomes her slave :D). He's on a lot of social media but it
doesn't hold me like the book did.
[/quote]
That sounds good. Have to look for it at the library.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: LabPartner Date: November 20, 2022, 8:09 pm
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Picked up the new John Irving novel. Probably start reading it
tomorrow.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Paloma Date: January 4, 2023, 11:40 am
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Got Stephen King's Fairy Tale for Christmas. Been waiting to
read this!
It's sooo well done. My nerdy lit side is just thrilled with
what he's done! Fairy tales are a very specific type of
literature, have certain key elements no matter what culture
they come from, follow certain well-defined arcs, and have very
specific characters in them. Fairy tales were a way for people
to address social problems without coming right out and talking
about the issues, and so they have a lot of societal warnings in
them. (Almost all of them are about the dangers presented in
life in pretty light disguise, or evil characters that were
threatening IRL and required a warning to kids).
I'm about 200 pages in, and am enjoying how King is using these
necessary elements in a very updated take. Up far too late
reading. :)
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Re: What are you reading?
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: January 10, 2023, 10:34 pm
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My book club is reading Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie
Perrin.
I’m really enjoying it. It’s happy, sad, thought provoking,
funny, and interesting all at the same time.
The author is French and the book takes place mostly in rural
France.
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