I have been spent a good amount of time this winter break doing some reading. I started out with Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. I had bought my copy and had it autographed when I went with a girl from ENGL 325 to hear the author read from her first novel, the The Namesake. I got to it a little bit faster than I otherwise would have because that same girl from class had invited me around that same time to a future meeting of her book club where Interpreter was to be discussed. I enjoyed the book tremendously. Since I was in the mood for more of Lahiri's work, I followed that up with the Namesake (which I also purchased and had autographed at the reading I attended). My Aunt Lil sent me a copy of A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations for Christmas and I have been trying to good about keeping up with that. I also read Mona Lisa Smile a novel by Deborah Chiel based on the motion picture. I thought this book might enhance my understanding of women in the 1950s, which I briefly explored in my America in the 1960s class that I took during my first semester at GMU. Having completed it, I don't really feel as though it did. Earlier today I finished Stardust. This is the best book that I have read by Neil Gaiman thus far. It's a fairy tale for adults. You should check it out.
-- CrystalShiloh @ 09:31 PM