My parents owned the entire Beatrix Potter collection in a series of wee, precious books that I pored over as a child. My aunt somehow magically found a whole collection of gorgeous Peter Rabbit stuffed animals, which she then doled out to my sister and me over a series of Christmases and birthdays. I have Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, and Mr. Jeremy Fisher. My sister owns Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten, and Squirrel (she adorably referred to him as Skerl) Nutkin. A few weeks back, CBR […]
Davita is more interesting than her story.
The Chancellor and I have been a bit frustrated with our book club these past few months. So we decided, along with our friend A, that a sub-book club might get us reading faster and more frequently. The Chancellor had April’s pick with Station Eleven, so he decided to pick our sub-book-club-book-club pick, as well (we’ve jokingly referred to the club as “A Book Club for Good Christians,” which is an inside joke). He’s been at me for *years* to read Davita’s Harp by Chaim […]
A beautiful, elegaic book in which to Cannonball.
Oh, this book. This beautiful, sad, moving book. I can’t even imagine my literary life without Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in it. Americanah is going straight to my to-read list. If you’ve never read anything by hers, do yourself a favor and read this book. Half of a Yellow Sun takes place when Biafra is asserting its independence from Nigeria. It follows a beautifully complex array of characters: a teenager, Ugwu who comes to work as a houseboy for a professor, Odenigbo; the professor himself; Olanna, […]
NPR betrayed me: CBR7’s big disappointment so far.
I’ll admit, when it comes to literature, I have pretty high standards. I am trying to read more multi-culturally oriented works by writers who are more than just white, and that includes writers who have indigenous (Native American) ties. My favorites are Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, but I am trying to develop a diverse palate. The Chancellor listens to NPR on his afternoon commute home, and they raved about David Treuer’s Prudence. The description intrigued me, so I put in a library request. The […]
The Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! We willna be fooled again!!!
I don’t remember if it was during my first CBR or a pre-CBR year that I read the first Discworld book, The Color of Magic. It wasn’t my jam. I just didn’t get into it. My sister, an avid reader of Pratchett, suggested that I would *really* like the Tiffany Aching books, and said, “Start with The Wee Free Men.” So I did, in honor of Sir Pratchett’s recent passing, and I am delighted with this new encounter. Tiffany Aching is a nine-year-old girl who […]
In which I admit my addiction to Cormac McCarthy…
I know a LOT of people who have read The Road and were thoroughly traumatized by it. Several advised me to wait and read it when it was sunny outside, so I wouldn’t be depressed afterwards. I did follow that advice, but I also read two McCarthy books that did not coincide with sunshine. And, frankly, I found Blood Meridian to be such a bloodbath that The Road, as bleak as it is, cannot even compare. I’ve concluded that The Road is the most traumatizing […]
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