Bookworms unite
When I flew to QLD for Summit, I sat down next to a lovely lady who turned out to be an avid reader, like me. The only thing I like almost as much as reading is talking about books. Any other ...
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I'm currently reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, one of those classics I've never read. My previous fiction reads this year:socoda said:What are you currently reading Cosette?
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - By an Aussie author, this is a fictional account of the life of the last woman executed in Iceland in 1829. It was shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2014 and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014. It was a fascinating read.
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - An American novel about slavery that re-imagines the underground railroad as an actual locomotive rather than just a network of passages and safe houses. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz - This one is by a Dominican-American and tells the story of a family's struggle in the Dominican Republic and then in America. It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman - The premise of this novel is that immigrants bring their gods with them. What happens to them? The mythic aspect is a vehicle for observations about society. I wanted to read this ahead of the TV adaptation and I loved it. It has won multiple awards.
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith - This is a 2000 novel by a British author. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends and their families in London. Beneath that, it's about Britain's relationships with people from formerly colonised countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. This book has won multiple awards also. It was a lovely read - funny, poignant, and also sad at times.
I love reading from a variety of perspectives, but I read mostly literary fiction. However, I'm thinking of up picking the suspense thriller The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey. It's all the rage at the moment.