Billy: "I am reading a couple of books right now. One is The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. It's a fascinating and painful narrative non-fiction tale about two men, both named Wes Moore, who travel very different paths: one goes into a life of crime and one becomes hugely successful. The book looks at the series of events that led the two men in very different directions. The other book is called Imperial Reckoning, and it's about the prison camps the British instituted in Kenya during the Mau-Mau Rebellion."
Crossroads staff are enjoying a variety of fiction--Anne Treeger Huck is reading Sarah Conley, by Ellen Gilchrist. Gilchrist won the National Book Award in 1984 with her collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan. Joe's current read is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Steig Larson. Gerry is reading Jane Eyre because his daughter has a solo in the musical version to be staged at Visitation Academy.
Joan and Sara are lugging around Franzen's Freedom. I'd like to hear their impressions when they finish. Franzen was on the cover of Time and the book has gotten a lot of positive attention. Not everyone loves it, though--see the article by B. R. Meyers in the October issue of Atlantic magazine, available at the library ("Smaller Than Life"). Meyers expressed his dislike for some contemporary novel-writing techniques in his 2002 book, A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness of American Literary Prose.
More to come!
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