Jul 26 2008
I’m Reading…
The next book for our book club is Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris. I’m looking forward to reading a novel written by a woman. Our first two picks were both written by men and interestingly enough the main characters were women. Wally Lamb did a much better job writing a woman in She’s Come Undone because he delved pretty deep into her process and I felt like I stepped right into her skin – which was quite disturbing actually! The last book was Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins and it was a spectacular read, but very intellectual. Ultimately, it was a political statement about how politics and religion suck. The woman Robbins wrote was super horny with a huge head of unmanageable hair. I guess she was supposed to be a modern-day Jezebel. I didn’t care so much how he wrote the characters – they didn’t really flesh out – but, the book was funny as hell and I loved how he ripped to shreds a whole bunch of everything. In a weird and twisted way, he was encouraging people to look inward for happiness and to connect with God while embracing our humanity, which is a message that I really like. It’s just too bad that there’s so much craziness to get to the core message. But, then again maybe he buried it on purpose – to force the reader to go after it, to work for it.
Anyhow, I’m looking forward to our next read because I think it’s cool to read a book that someone else picked out. The person who picked it says that it’s “about a mysterious plot to bring down a boys boarding school in England…themes of class and an old-fashioned professor who has been discounted by the newer faculty who figures out what is really going on….” Sounds good!
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