Last week I read
Time Present and Time Past, by Deirdre Madden, which I really enjoyed. She was nominated for the Orange Prize for
Molly Fox's Birthday, a book a lot of her fans think is better than
Time Present but I liked it just fine and I'm excited to discover such a terrific new-to-me literary writer.
This week I'm still (still!) plodding along through
Hild and
The Siege of Krishnapur. I have a lot going on right now; reading is slow. I'm doing a ton of sewing and that takes up most of my would-be-reading time. But I started and have almost finished
The Wedding, by Dorothy West, a 1995 novel by a key member of the Harlem Renaissance, about a wealthy African-American clan getting ready to marry off one of its daughters on the family homestead on Martha's Vineyard. It's pretty wonderful.
I'm also starting a group read of
We, by Evgeny Zamyatin, being held over on LibraryThing. I love this book and I'm excited to be reading it with a group of my online pals.
We is one of the founding books of the dystopian genre; every dystopia written since its 1920s publication owes it something.
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5 comments:
It's hard to read when there is so much going on! Have a great week!
love We, too!
will be starting Middlemarch (for a class) in the next few days. Just finished A Tale of Two Cities and discovered maybe I could read Dickens after all.
~L (omphaloskepsis)
I'm so glad to hear you're enjoying We -- I've read and loved it several times!
I may need to add The Wedding to my tbr list. I love the cover. Happy reading!
I had forgotten all about The Wedding. I really wanted to reead it when it came out. Off to add it to my wish list!
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