Been reading a bit as I try to puzzle my way through a macroeconomics class. Quick mini updates:
A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews: Very good, funny. I think reviewers like to compare books to others that came before so readers can identify if they might like to read something ("Oh, it's like that book. I'll like this one too.") But I felt that comparing this to Salinger's Catcher in the Rye is a disservice (not to detract from the latter). I liked this narrator much better, and felt like her challenges were bigger.
The Sea, by John Banville, which was nice, and sad, but it didn't move me or stick in my head. Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking reminded me of this for some reason, but I would otherwise have forgotten it by this time next year. I couldn't get completely through the latter. Is it because I've never experienced grief the way the narrators (one real, one fictional) do?
Currently, I'm in The Time In Between, by David Bergen. So far so good. Incidentally, the American version of this book has an unfortunate cover. I prefer the Canadian one. These make it look like two completely different books.
posted by Tina on 4/10/2006 | 3 comments | #