Books 1-8 / 100

[slickmc]

Here's my first post for the year.  Once again, my goal is to read at least 100 books before January 1, 2011, and to have 50% of those books be non-fiction.

1. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith

            I guess everyone’s heard of this already.  It’s an unfinished novel about the invasion of France in 1941.

Comments

[slickmc]

Yeah, knowing her history, you think about it the whole time you're reading, even though the book isn't about Jews or the Holocaust. I kept thinking how bitter she must have been and how betrayed she must've felt.

How did it get to you? That she did portray them as human?

[c_aztecgold]

Wish I could have read so many already. What is your secret? The Red Tent was a beautiful book and as a Midwife, very personal.

[slickmc]

Haha, my secret is putting everything second place, including work, housecleaning, food, and sleep. When I get really into a book, no matter what other commitments I have, I just can't make myself put it down. I can get incredibly unsocial when I'm reading something interesting.

Scary, but perhaps not scary enough to be true.

[shkarlson]

Your assessment of Roth is about right ... the resolution failed to convince.

Re: Scary, but perhaps not scary enough to be true.

[slickmc]

Glad you agree. I think I might have read about this in the NY Times Book Review and had high hopes for it. And perhaps one just has high hopes for dystopian novels in general, in the sense that you don't think of the ending being "Oh, and then everything turned out ok."