April wound up being the month of the female author...for me anyway. And I am so glad it turned out that way. Jhumpa Lahiri and Geraldine Brooks are two of our greatest living novelists (female or male). Thoroughly enjoyed my selections for April.
April was a busy month. Every week I was in a different location for business (Chicago, Houston, San Jose, and Denver). I was also able to mix in a weekend getaway to Chicago with my wife and a short drivable vacation to Houston with the wife and kids to visit NASA. Even with all this busyness, I managed to partake in my favorite pastime...reading.
April was a busy month. Every week I was in a different location for business (Chicago, Houston, San Jose, and Denver). I was also able to mix in a weekend getaway to Chicago with my wife and a short drivable vacation to Houston with the wife and kids to visit NASA. Even with all this busyness, I managed to partake in my favorite pastime...reading.
 | Pulitzer Prize Fiction - 2000 First American Edition **** What an amazing short story collection from one of my 'newest' favorite authors. What is it with Indian authors...I mean seriously? Naipaul, Rushdie, and now Jhumpa Lahiri. The first story "A Temporary Matter" will perhaps leave you with a lump in your throat, as it did for me. The title story "Interpreter of Maladies" unsurprisingly is the best story in the bunch. Highly recommend this Pulitzer winner. |
 | 2013 Signed First Printing ***** This is the book that established myself as a huge fan of Lahiri. A gripping tale about two brothers, two very different brothers who took very different paths during the Naxalite movement. Most Americans are not familiar with the Naxalites, including myself, therefore this book was very informative and enriching. Don't want to give away any more of the plot or be descriptive in my review...but rather ask you to please read this wonderful novel. |
 | Nobel Prize Fiction - 1977 1982 First American Edition *** April was National Poetry Month. I thoroughly enjoy reading poetry, a very different art form compared to the novel. Sometimes deeper and richer. Great poetry will allow you to lose yourself, find yourself, and/or discover a new you all within a single piece of a work. Therefore a collection of poetry from one poet must be beyond enriching...transformative. A Bird of Paper by Aleixandre was 'just' good...enjoyable but not transformative. My favorites: Adolescence, The Poet, You Almost Loved Me. |
 | 2015 Signed First Printing **** Love Geraldine Brooks (I collect all of her work). But I did not expect to like this novel as much as I did. The Secret Chord is a biblical-historical-Novel about the life of King David, told from the point-of-view of Nathan. This is not your straight-forward tale your preacher/priest/rabbi would tell. There are moments of terror and grief, taboo relationships and horrific scenes. Highly recommend! |
 | 2015 Signed First Printing **** Rick Moody is a very inventive and prolific writer (I collect all of his work). Not counting his Four Fingers of Death, this is his most creative work to date. Moody is also the writer of the acclaimed The Ice Storm (my favorite) and The Garden State. Hotels of North America was an uniguely fascinating novel told out of sequence about a no-holds-barred hotel reviewer named Reginald Edward Morse. It started out slow, but then quickly grew on me...and by the end, well I didn't want it to end. |
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