Well, I finished Appointment in Samara and Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret. Two completely different books, but I really enjoyed them both.
Appointment in Samara is a book set during prohibition and I really felt like it was written for men. In fact, when I was reading it, I could just picture myself eavesdropping on a smoking room full of men with one telling this story. It’s not that it was particularly graphic or profane, just kinda like guy gossip. The main problem I have come across with this list of books is that so many of them are sad. I guess that how a lot of critics define good literature. Which is one of the reasons it was so nice to get something different like Are You There.
Are You There is a book written for pre-teens about coming of age and starting to make your own decisions, becoming independent, etc. It was fun to look back on that time in my life and see how many similarities and differences I could identify. It also reminded me of a lot of the struggles that my youth girls are going through. (And it’s always nice to get finished with one of my books in a couple of hours.)
Next up I am going to skip down to Atonement so I can go see the movie this weekend. I ordered The Assistant and At-Swim-Two-Birds as well. None of them are particularly long so hopefully I can finish them all in the next couple of weeks. To be honest, my favorite part is going to buy new books and anticipating what I will be reading in the future.
