I used to keep up with a separate webpage devoted to books & reading - my favorites, and what i'm reading now. I've got enough separate things to keep up with, so i'll fold that into this particular AOL journal.
What I'm Reading Now (hereafter WIRN) will cover books that i'm in the middle of, or just recently finished.
The Accidental by Ali Smith - quite the post-modern novel, a loathsome appellation to be sure, although one that works for the fan of the literary, the inventive, the novel-as-gimmick. A bit freaky, and too much foul language, but every page makes you think.
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan - remember in The Grapes in Wrath, those sad-sacks that fled the midwest dust bowl for the promised land of California? Well, this is the story of those that were too stubborn or too poor or too dullard to flee, gutting it out in western Oklahoma or the Texas panhandle. This is the story of my ancestors, more or less. And i say that proudly.
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