This book cleverly combines the history of Abraham Lincoln's life and inserts a parodic vampire story. Initially I was highly intrigued by the subject matter, but found myself bored about a third of the way through the book. My brain tuned the words out even though I tried very hard to pay attention.
The author's writing style reminds me slightly of Christopher Moore.
I will update if/when I get around to finishing it.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Help
The help is a novel that is set in the 60's in Jackson, Mississippi. It is about a white women who decides to write a book compiling interviews of "colored" maids and what it has been like to work for white families.
It is hard to imagine such blatant racial disparity so recent as the 60's. It depicts the rapidly changing racial inequalities of the time.
The book is a little hard to get into at first due to the prose of the black women. But once I had gotten used to it, I found the book to be a page-turner and finished it in two days.
It is hard to imagine such blatant racial disparity so recent as the 60's. It depicts the rapidly changing racial inequalities of the time.
The book is a little hard to get into at first due to the prose of the black women. But once I had gotten used to it, I found the book to be a page-turner and finished it in two days.
The Winter Garden
This is a book that is about two women who grew up with a mother who is emotionally distant--to the extreme. In the middle of their lives, they learn that there is a reason for their mothers' inability to show love, and depicts a horrifying story of what it would have been like to live under the Russian dictator (?) Joseph Stalin.
It has been my experience that those who grow up with emotionally retarded parents aren't so conscious of their parent(s) shortcomings during childhood until an emotional breakdown later in life. Therefore, I found the two women characters a little annoying and unrealistic in their constant complaining about their mother.
A depressing but enlightening read.
It has been my experience that those who grow up with emotionally retarded parents aren't so conscious of their parent(s) shortcomings during childhood until an emotional breakdown later in life. Therefore, I found the two women characters a little annoying and unrealistic in their constant complaining about their mother.
A depressing but enlightening read.
Water for Elephants
This book set in the depression era about a man who joined the circus. Even though it is fiction, it includes many true events--a compilation of circus stories embedded in a single story.
I was very surprised to learn in this book how smart elephants are: the ability to interpret language and emotion.
It was a good read. The movie mostly follows the story line, but is choppy and had you not read the book, would have probably been confused by many small tidbits in the story.
I was very surprised to learn in this book how smart elephants are: the ability to interpret language and emotion.
It was a good read. The movie mostly follows the story line, but is choppy and had you not read the book, would have probably been confused by many small tidbits in the story.
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