Monday, April 6, 2009
Read any Good Books lately - April edition
Read with a book group in Somers - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest GAines (THE BIG READ). That was a good book and I listened to the audiobook version, read by Jay Long, which made it really come to life. Its a book that speaks both of the black experience during Jim Crow years in the south, but also speaks to a universality of finding out who you are and not who people think you are and should be. Read last year's BIG READ - Their Eyes were Watching God by Hurston and that was one book that keep me glued to it until I finished it. Good book, no matter if its about blacks, whites or chartreuse. Gaines book is very good, but Hurston's was fantastic. Anyone read any of her other books? OR read any good books lately, Pat H/KAT ;-)
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We read "March" for our "March" book group. Author Geraldine Brooks a new favorite of mine, has a nice nonfiction book out called Foreign Correspondence. You could call it an adult book for YAs. It's a kind of coming of age story. Brooks, a war and foreign correspondent until recently, tells of her upbringing in Australia. As an adult she tracks down and visits her childhood pen pals from all around the world. She used to live in Virginia and now lives in Martha's Vineyard
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