I read Love Medicine on a plane trip two years ago and thought it was excellent, especially the writing. [Sidenote: I’ve learned to bring all my femme lit on the airplane, because then men don’t talk to me. Case in point: on a connecting flight from Atlanta to Minneapolis, I had a three-hour layover, and I pulled out Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. No one approached me. I read the entire time. IT WAS AWESOME.] I’ve been meaning to read more of Erdrich’s books, so I thought […]
God is the color of water.
I read The Color of Water by James McBride for my Honors Composition I course (eleven years ago now! Yikes), and I remembered liking it. My friend F had this month’s pick for our book club, and she chose this one, so that we could talk about race in America. If you’ve followed my reviews for any length of time, you know I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, because I often have issues with the writing or style. I felt that The Color of […]
The magic of a tidy mind and house (never mind the bookshelf)
I’m a clutterbug by nature, and grad school has only amplified it. There are papers everywhere, I have student papers, and countless books from the library to aid with my research. Not to mention clothes, kitchen gadgets, my own books, movies, shoes, and years upon years of memorabilia. I find myself at an impasse: there are days when I want to live in an empty room, but most days, I feel like I can never let go of ANYTHING. So I found myself drawn to […]
The Bear and the Maiden Fair
One of my goals for 2015 is to read more multi-cultural and Anglophone texts, so that I have a better grasp on world literature, as well as the non-white American and British writers who comprise the canon. As far as native American (or indigenous American or First People) literature is concerned, I’ve read a small handful: Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Silko’s Ceremony, Greg Sarris’s Grand Avenue, and several collections by Sherman Alexie (my favorite is still his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time […]
Purple Hibiscus and the Human Heart
In looking over my Goodreads reading challenge, I realize that this year’s CBR is off to a really strong start. Maybe I’m choosing books I’m fairly certain I’ll like…? (Either way, the next book in the queue may be one I’m on the fence about, but that’s for Review #7). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie came highly recommended to me, and after reading Purple Hibiscus, I’m going to get my hands on all her books and recommend her to EVERYBODY. Purple Hibiscus follows the coming of age […]
Who Run Howards End? Girls.
It’s incredible–I’m a British lit nerd and somehow missed Howards End by E.M. Forster. I’ve never even seen the Merchant/Ivory production! How did this happen???? Well, I’m now 1 for 2, so I guess the long weekend will be spent watching the adaptation, right? Howards End is described as a representation of Late Victorian England (but I’d argue it’s so much more than that) through three families: the middle-class and pragmatic Wilcoxes, determined to maintain status quo and retain their foothold on their wealth; the […]
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