Books again...
The goal is to read 25-30 books in 2013.
Here are book 3 and 4:
I Am The Clay - Chaim Potok
Potok is among my favorite writers, but up until now I hadn´t read this book. I love his descriptions of Jewish life in New York around 1930-1960 and in that regard I Am The Clay is a completely different book. It is set in North Korea in 1955 and features an elderly couple who, fleeing from a Chinese invasion leave their village and find a boy on the side of the road. The woman urges her husband to take the badly injured boy along and take care of him.
´It´s very much an ´inside your head´ book. There isn´t much dialogue or action, most of the story is told in the form of musings of one of the three main characters.
Still, I found it to be an interesting read. Potok´s descriptions take you right into the scene and his capability to tell a story, even though I Am The Clay is much more sparse than most of his other work is uncompromised.
Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched The World - Vicky Myron
This was definitely my fluff-read of the month, but it was an entertaining read. Spencer Iowa, 1988. Early one morning, the staff of the Public Library finds a tiny, frozen kitten inside the book drop. They decide to keep him and he grows into one of the most famous, popular cats of the USA and abroad.
For cats, books and library lovers, this is a fun book to read. I love how unashamedly biased Vicky Myron, the Library director and Dewey´s ´mummy´ is about her cat. There is a smarter, friendlier, more special cat in the entire world.
But because it is actually based on true events, it is a very hopefull, cozy story.
Currently reading: The Afternoon Lady - Julia Franck
It´s translated (in Dutch) from a German book and it got raving reviews. So far, I`m not too enthousiastic about it. It´s the oddest thing... I don´t really enjoy it, but I don´t dislike it enough to quit it. I keep reading and thinking the story will eventually get hold of me.
Reading List of 2013:
1. 38 Nachten (38 Nights) - Janne IJmker
2. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. I Am The Clay - Chaim Potok
4. Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched The World - Vicky Myron
Here are book 3 and 4:
I Am The Clay - Chaim Potok
Potok is among my favorite writers, but up until now I hadn´t read this book. I love his descriptions of Jewish life in New York around 1930-1960 and in that regard I Am The Clay is a completely different book. It is set in North Korea in 1955 and features an elderly couple who, fleeing from a Chinese invasion leave their village and find a boy on the side of the road. The woman urges her husband to take the badly injured boy along and take care of him.
´It´s very much an ´inside your head´ book. There isn´t much dialogue or action, most of the story is told in the form of musings of one of the three main characters.
Still, I found it to be an interesting read. Potok´s descriptions take you right into the scene and his capability to tell a story, even though I Am The Clay is much more sparse than most of his other work is uncompromised.
Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched The World - Vicky Myron
This was definitely my fluff-read of the month, but it was an entertaining read. Spencer Iowa, 1988. Early one morning, the staff of the Public Library finds a tiny, frozen kitten inside the book drop. They decide to keep him and he grows into one of the most famous, popular cats of the USA and abroad.
For cats, books and library lovers, this is a fun book to read. I love how unashamedly biased Vicky Myron, the Library director and Dewey´s ´mummy´ is about her cat. There is a smarter, friendlier, more special cat in the entire world.
But because it is actually based on true events, it is a very hopefull, cozy story.
Currently reading: The Afternoon Lady - Julia Franck
It´s translated (in Dutch) from a German book and it got raving reviews. So far, I`m not too enthousiastic about it. It´s the oddest thing... I don´t really enjoy it, but I don´t dislike it enough to quit it. I keep reading and thinking the story will eventually get hold of me.
Reading List of 2013:
1. 38 Nachten (38 Nights) - Janne IJmker
2. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. I Am The Clay - Chaim Potok
4. Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched The World - Vicky Myron