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What Are You Reading?
Reading list by Donald Barthelme
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Favorite of 2014 so far: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A wonderfully written novel about big subjects of race, class, gender and globalization along with a good love story. Don’t think you’ll put it down.
I’m finishing up Goldfinch, and searching for a new book. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
And I’m just starting Goldfinch.
I had some quibbles, but it’s big and it’s good.
Wendy (and everyone else)- what are you reading these days? I’m about halfway through “The Book Thief” which was selected by my bookclub. I’m actually pleasantly surprised that I like it so much.
In my book group (which is filled with writers), we’re reading short stories. Borges, Munro and most recently Roberto Bolano, who I absolutely loved. I’m thinking of getting his novel, The Savage Detectives.
Just finished Gary Schteyngart’s Little Failure. This memoir is,of course, uproariously hilarious, yet surpringly poignant. He certainly has a gift for comic self depreciation. The Publisher’s Clearinghouse episode, when he and his recent Russian immigrant parents believed they had actually become rich is both funny and a look at the immigrant experience–i too might have beenconfused had I only recently arrived in the United States.
I do wonder if his parents read it!
I read, Super Sad True Love Story, which I enjoyed (though it also drove me crazy). A few years ago, I saw him at a speaking engagement and he was really funny.