March’s book was Extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer. The verdict? I couldn’t get into this book at all. Despite getting through almost half of it, I quit. I found myself really forcing myself to keep reading. At one point I even stopped reading it and picked up something else, the hope [...]
I’ve joined an online bookclub (how it started, thanks to Penny). Here is our reading list for the coming year: February: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows March: Extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer April: In defense of food: An eater’s manifesto by [...]
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 2007 Library copy Fiction 543 pages Rating: 4/5 What led you to pick up this book? I can’t remember if there was anything specific, beyond the fact that I enjoy novels set in places I have never been, with cultures that are unfamiliar to [...]