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This is my second or third attempt to regularly post about books I'm reading / have read on a weekly basis. Maybe it'll work out better this time.
I finished rereading Abeng by Michelle Cliff yesterday. It's for a paper I'm writing and it's a very short book that interlaces the history of Jamaica with the life of a twelve year old biracial girl who is mostly unaware of said history and I really enjoyed that book. I think I might have liked it more the first time I read it though. There's not a lot going on plot-wise and it's a relatively fast read.
I'm also reading Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler. I picked this book up at the library on a whim while working because it's very small and has very few pages and I like that in my intros to literary theory and didn't look at who had written it (honestly, even if I had, I wasn't familiar with the name) and about three hours later I was at a talk by Linda Hutcheon where she thanked none other than Jonathan Culler. Later that day he held a door open for me. I only made the connection the next day when I took the book out of my bag and saw the author's name. I'm only on page 20 or so but it's written in an easy to understand way so far.
And I've been neglecting the amazing, wonderful The Known World by Edward P. Jones because I need to do work on the Abeng/Disappearing Moon Café paper. I feel horrible about it because The Known World is sooo good so far. We were going to read it in my (Neo) Slave Narrative class but it was cut from the reading list a few weeks before the semester started and I can see why it didn't fit in with the rest of the books we read but it's so much better then Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes / Someone Knows My Name.
And the book I'm going to neglect The Known World for now is Disappearing Moon Café by Sky Lee. I'm rereading it. I didn't like it that much when I first read it but apparently there were interesting elements I missed judging from the class discussion and I had wanted to give it a second try since February. And I've already researched everything to write a paper about it, so it doesn't matter if I like it ;)
What have you been reading?
I finished rereading Abeng by Michelle Cliff yesterday. It's for a paper I'm writing and it's a very short book that interlaces the history of Jamaica with the life of a twelve year old biracial girl who is mostly unaware of said history and I really enjoyed that book. I think I might have liked it more the first time I read it though. There's not a lot going on plot-wise and it's a relatively fast read.
I'm also reading Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler. I picked this book up at the library on a whim while working because it's very small and has very few pages and I like that in my intros to literary theory and didn't look at who had written it (honestly, even if I had, I wasn't familiar with the name) and about three hours later I was at a talk by Linda Hutcheon where she thanked none other than Jonathan Culler. Later that day he held a door open for me. I only made the connection the next day when I took the book out of my bag and saw the author's name. I'm only on page 20 or so but it's written in an easy to understand way so far.
And I've been neglecting the amazing, wonderful The Known World by Edward P. Jones because I need to do work on the Abeng/Disappearing Moon Café paper. I feel horrible about it because The Known World is sooo good so far. We were going to read it in my (Neo) Slave Narrative class but it was cut from the reading list a few weeks before the semester started and I can see why it didn't fit in with the rest of the books we read but it's so much better then Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes / Someone Knows My Name.
And the book I'm going to neglect The Known World for now is Disappearing Moon Café by Sky Lee. I'm rereading it. I didn't like it that much when I first read it but apparently there were interesting elements I missed judging from the class discussion and I had wanted to give it a second try since February. And I've already researched everything to write a paper about it, so it doesn't matter if I like it ;)
What have you been reading?
