Children's Indian

[maribou]

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (unabridged audiobook)
Compelling. Alexie has the gift of making tragedy funny, and this book was even better read aloud by the author's own voice. I found myself listening to this without even doing something else to keep my hands busy, a very good sign. Top notch.
(1/200)

The Children's Book, by A. S. Byatt
It is rare that I love being immersed in a book so much that I find reasons to put off reading it when I get close to the end, just because it will be over way too soon. Byatt is one of my favorite writers and I think this is the book I've always been hoping she would write. Beautiful language and characters I will be mulling over for days. I think this is what I wanted The Magicians to be (even though that's cheating since this one has the advantage of being set Victorian-through-WW1 instead of being contemporary). Love love love love.
(2/200)

Comments

[algol.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to read the Alexie book since it sounds interesting but I had problems with his other books so I might stay away. As someone who grew up on a rez I have some issues with what he portrays and leaves out.

[maribou]

That's fair. I have gotten frustrated with writers over similar things myself in the past. I was actually thinking about that sort of thing in a similar context yesterday because AS Byatt (whose books I love) and Margaret Drabble (whose books I suspect I will love when I ever get around to reading them) are sisters and famously irritated by each other's books - the direction each one takes their familial experience, the way they each tap their past to inform their fiction, drives the other one completely up the wall. They won't even read each other.