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(I’m apparently on a bit of a SF kick.)
(I started the year on a bit of a SF kick.)
This list is starting to get out of hand — I should really break it up by year or something. Till I get around to that, I’ll start adding dates. (I’m usually reading at least three things at once, and often forget to add things here, so they’re approximate at best.)
This list is starting to get out of hand — I should really break it up by year or something. Till I get around to that, maybe I’ll at least start adding dates to newly-added things. (I’m usually reading at least three things at once, and often forget to add things here, so they’re approximate at best.)
(I’m apparently on a bit of a SF kick.)
It wasn’t a good year for reading.
Recently read: Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje. I greatly enjoyed Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of a Lion and memoir Running in the Family, though I didn’t really get The English Patient until I saw the movie. RitF, in particular, gave him a concrete subject to work with (I often lose him in the swirls of language - not a bad thing, just a thing), and was set mostly in his homeland of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), which was fascinating. His most recent novel is also set in Sri Lanka, and also has a concrete subject: the harrowing civil war that has gripped the country for two decades. The themes are darker than RitF, and Ondaatje seemed to turn the voltage down on his language out of respect. I was correspondingly less happy with it.
Recently read: Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje. I greatly enjoyed Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of a Lion and memoir Running in the Family, though I didn’t really get The English Patient until I saw the movie. Running in the Family, in particular, gave him a concrete subject to work with (I often lose him in the swirls of language - not a bad thing, just a thing), and was set mostly in his homeland of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), which was fascinating. His most recent novel is also set in Sri Lanka, and also has a concrete subject: the harrowing civil war that has gripped the country for two decades. The themes are darker than Running in the Family, and Ondaatje seemed to turn the voltage down on his language out of respect. I was correspondingly less happy with it.
Recently read: Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje. I greatly enjoyed Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of a Lion and memoir Running in the Family, though I didn’t really get The English Patient until I saw the movie. RitF, in particular, gave him a concrete subject to work with (I often lose him in the swirls of language - not a bad thing, just a thing), and was set mostly in his homeland of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), which was fascinating. His most recent novel is also set in Sri Lanka, and also has a concrete subject: the harrowing civil war that has gripped the country for two decades. The themes are darker than Rit F?, and Ondaatje seemed to turn the voltage down on his language out of respect. I was correspondingly less happy with it.
Recently read: Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje. I greatly enjoyed Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of a Lion and memoir Running in the Family, though I didn’t really get The English Patient until I saw the movie. RitF, in particular, gave him a concrete subject to work with (I often lose him in the swirls of language - not a bad thing, just a thing), and was set mostly in his homeland of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), which was fascinating. His most recent novel is also set in Sri Lanka, and also has a concrete subject: the harrowing civil war that has gripped the country for two decades. The themes are darker than RitF, and Ondaatje seemed to turn the voltage down on his language out of respect. I was correspondingly less happy with it.