Thursday, January 14, 2010
What Have You Been Reading?
I am reading two books that take place in Africa right now: _What is the What_ by Dave Eggers and _Say You're One of Them_ by Uwem Akpan. These stories are eye opening! I cannot imagine the level of poverty and hardship portrayed in these pages. I have never read anything like either of these two books. The Akpan book is a collection of stories and the first story floored me. I know in a remote way that people in the world live in such extreme poverty that they go hungry, but this story brought me up uncomfortably close to the experience.
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I'm almost done with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran-Foer, and it’s really good. Sometimes Foer goes into too much detail into character’s minds. I mean, all of us know how we think…because we all think in similar ways. Foer uses the stream of conscious method somewhat excessively. Still, it’s a really good read. I read Everything is Illuminated way back when, too, and that was really good…
I’m also reading Empty Without You, edited/compiled by Rodger Streitmatter. It’s some of the love letters written between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickock, who was a journalist. It’s kind of hard to keep reading the letters, because there are many references to all of the connections (people) Lorena and Roosevelt had, and all of those people have to at least be known a small amount by the reader. But the history between the letters is fascinating.
I’m reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and I’m only on page 100. It’s hard to get through right now, but I keep hearing I need to keep reading, so I’m trying…
I’m also reading Queer America-A GLBT History of the 20th Century, by Vicki L. Eaklor. It’s a historical textbook, basically, so it’s slow reading. But cool.
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