Reading List
Time to update my reading list.
I did finish The Double and was none too happy about the ending. The main character is referred to as "The Hero" throughout the book. So, I naively assumed all would work out in the end for him. Three pages before the end he was dubbed "Our Sorry Hero" and ended up being carted off to the insane asylum. Very irritating. I like my endings happy, thank you...
...which is why I have still not finished Uncle Tom's Cabin. Too much tragedy and melodrama. But, I've gotten back to it and will read to the weepy end.
Seeing Past Z by Beth Kephart was a delight. She has a passion for engaging children in literature and a beautiful writing style.
I'm in the middle of Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Story Mountain. He converts from to Catholicism in his twenties and then enters a Trappist monastery. I wish he wasn't so very anti-protestant, but it's still fascinating stuff.
I did finish The Double and was none too happy about the ending. The main character is referred to as "The Hero" throughout the book. So, I naively assumed all would work out in the end for him. Three pages before the end he was dubbed "Our Sorry Hero" and ended up being carted off to the insane asylum. Very irritating. I like my endings happy, thank you...
...which is why I have still not finished Uncle Tom's Cabin. Too much tragedy and melodrama. But, I've gotten back to it and will read to the weepy end.
Seeing Past Z by Beth Kephart was a delight. She has a passion for engaging children in literature and a beautiful writing style.
I'm in the middle of Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Story Mountain. He converts from to Catholicism in his twenties and then enters a Trappist monastery. I wish he wasn't so very anti-protestant, but it's still fascinating stuff.