2009 Reading List #17 and #18
Yes, I'm skimping on the comments this time, because the year is already over and anyway I don't have SUPER huge comments to make about them...
#17 was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; #18 was a complicated kindness by Miriam Toews.
I wasn't aware that LW was such a promotion of American and Christian values; this means that I was torn between some amusement at outdated attitudes and some recognition that most of these values are still, well, valuable. Jo is still the BEST.
CK has been SOOOO hyped that I'm not sure I could have enjoyed it as much as other people have. I think the focus on a highly conservative and reclusive religious group and how people manage to deal with their own cognitive dissonance within the group (or on its outskirts) is just really not that shocking or novel to me. Hence -- good book, very well written, but not my favourite this year.
Am partway through Stolen Continents by Ronald Wright, all about the destruction and colonization of the 'New World' by the Europeans. Looks like that'll be #1 of 2010.
#17 was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; #18 was a complicated kindness by Miriam Toews.
I wasn't aware that LW was such a promotion of American and Christian values; this means that I was torn between some amusement at outdated attitudes and some recognition that most of these values are still, well, valuable. Jo is still the BEST.
CK has been SOOOO hyped that I'm not sure I could have enjoyed it as much as other people have. I think the focus on a highly conservative and reclusive religious group and how people manage to deal with their own cognitive dissonance within the group (or on its outskirts) is just really not that shocking or novel to me. Hence -- good book, very well written, but not my favourite this year.
Am partway through Stolen Continents by Ronald Wright, all about the destruction and colonization of the 'New World' by the Europeans. Looks like that'll be #1 of 2010.