I just read The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan. The narrator is Grace, a 22 year old newlywed who is likely now a widow and is adrift in a lifeboat with 38 other survivors from the wreck of an ocean liner. Here is what author Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried) has to say on the book jacket: "The Lifeboat is a spellbinding and beautifully written novel, one that will keep readers turning pages late into the night. This is storytelling at its best, and I was completely absorbed from beginning to end."
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This is a test comment from Sharon. I also read How Georgia Became O'Keefe, an entertaining, short book about O'Keefe's creative development and her life.
ReplyDeleteHaving been immersed in reading for my doctoral exams until last month, I am trying to read some "just for fun" novels before I gear up for the new year; I just finished _The Devil All the Time_ by Donald Ray Pollock, a Southern Gothic novel that follows various ne'er-do-wells over a twenty year span after WWII. The book is riveting and vibrant, but a caveat: Pollack's stuff is what is often called "gritty" and he sometimes (like Faulkner, like O'Connor) seems to revel in shocking readers. Now I am on to 11/22/63, Stephen King's speculative fiction novel about a man who, through a quirk in the universe, is able to slip back in time and is determined to prevent JFK's assassination. So far, so good, but I'm only a quarter through the 843 page book.
ReplyDeleteOh, I liked 11/22/63, Josh. You've got some good surprises coming up. It was the first Stephen King novel I've read. I tried to read Salem's Lot when I was a teenager and I was too scared to continue.
DeleteI have mostly been doing home improvement projects, but I thought I should do some reading as well. So why not read some of the books that our students read that I have not? So I read Catcher in the Rye and am now on The Great Gatsby.
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