"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz; "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood; "The Temple of My Familiar" by Alice Walker; "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester; "Cherry" by Mary Karr; "Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan; "Gilead: A Novel" by Marilynne Robinson; "The Passion" by Jeanette Winterson; "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras; "The Bone People" by Kerry Hulme
So obviously the semester has been difficult on all of us, I haven't even looked at this thing since probably February. Are we going to try this over the summer, or consider it a failed attempt?
Wow, I haven't looked at this in a while either. I read some amazing books last semester in my 20th Century Novel class. I particularly liked Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I'm currently trying to survive the philosophical essays of Louis Althusser...eh. It's for Writing and Rhetorical Conventions (summer class). How about you guys, read anything good lately or have any suggestions?
Zora Neale Hurston was also an incredible woman, a folklorist who, among other things, was the one who "discovered" the secret to zombie-making in Haiti--there are a couple of existant ethnographic films she made that are really wild.
I just read "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss, which I thought was one of the more beautiful contemporary novels I've read lately.
Hey, all! I'm in, if anybody else is. Any new good books lately?
ReplyDeleteWow, I haven't looked at this in a while either. I read some amazing books last semester in my 20th Century Novel class. I particularly liked Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I'm currently trying to survive the philosophical essays of Louis Althusser...eh. It's for Writing and Rhetorical Conventions (summer class). How about you guys, read anything good lately or have any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteZora Neale Hurston was also an incredible woman, a folklorist who, among other things, was the one who "discovered" the secret to zombie-making in Haiti--there are a couple of existant ethnographic films she made that are really wild.
ReplyDeleteI just read "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss, which I thought was one of the more beautiful contemporary novels I've read lately.