Well now, Pip was quite the young man now, wasn't he. Great redemption of Miss Havisham, and the same for Pip. Jaggers a bit of a hard guy. Estella made it to the homestretch with panache.
So.........Mom, January is your selection. We expect to hear from you within the next week.
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O.K. How about Zeitoun, Colin gave it to me for christmas, I have just read a few pages. It is non fiction, but is about life as this generation sees it.
ReplyDeleteLet me know if this is not agreeable. grandma barb
Mom must have read the NY Times review of "Zeitoun" in segueing from a Dickens novel to a Dickensian tale:
ReplyDelete"Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his journalistic eyes wide open, roaming New Orleans after it was buried by Hurricane Katrina. He would find anger and pathos. A dark fable, perhaps. His villains would be evil and incompetent, even without Heckuva-Job-Brownie. In the end, though, he would not be able to constrain himself; his outrage might overwhelm the tale.
In “Zeitoun,” what Dave Eggers has found in the Katrina mud is the full-fleshed story of a single family, and in telling that story he hits larger targets with more punch than those who have already attacked the thematic and historic giants of this disaster. It’s the stuff of great narrative nonfiction.
Eggers, the boy wonder of good intentions, has given us 21st-century Dickensian storytelling — which is to say, a character-driven potboiler with a point. But here’s the real trick: He does it without any writerly triple-lutzes or winks of postmodern irony. There are no rants against President Bush, no cheap shots at the authorities who let this city drown. He does it the old-fashioned way: with show-not-tell prose, in the most restrained of voices."
Masterful, Mom.
Happy New Year to all.
Love, Jeff
I think that the entire Taylor family book clubber gang will love Zeitoun. It's already won "Best Book of the 2000s" from an influential Chicago-based web site.
ReplyDeleteI'm ready to go; sounds great!!!!
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Y'all just finish reedin' that Expectashun book? Shoo boy! Rondell finished that book on tape weeks ago! That Lionel Ritchie sure do make a good Mrs. Havisham. He really put he foot n2 it.
ReplyDeleteN-E-ways, why don't y'all read some Toni Morrison or something by that up and coming authur Sapphire next? That's more of Rondell's taste as opposed to reading about some stuck up white people.