I had so much fun during the Winter Reading Challenge that I am signing on for the Spring Challenge. Who will join me?For Spring, I will concentrate on reading the novels of Richard Powers. Now that I found Richard Powers because Zilla suggested The Echo Maker, I feel I need to investigate further. I am weird like that. I will also read The Secret Life of Bees because Jove recommended it and I am a beekeeper. I'm going to the beach so I will read something light like a Mary Kaye Andrews novel.
Here is my planned list, so far.
Gain - Richard Powers
The Time of Our Singing - Richard Powers
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance - Richard Powers
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Savannah Breeze - Mary Kaye Andrews
My list is short because Spring is my busiest time. With garden, bees, school, and farm, I shouldn't even lift a book, but . . .
2 comments:
Do you have Gain? I could send it, and the others, plus Gold Bug Variations (if you like music and concepts of genetics, you will LOVE this one, and it will make you CRY! I believe it is his best work to date.)
I started with his Pygmalion story, Galatea 2.0, and then started at the beginning and read his novels in order. The only Powers novel I couldn't get through was a rather bleak one, Plowing the Dark, about a pediatrician treating near hopelessly ill children, if I recall correctly. I should make another attempt.
The Secret Life of Bees sounds so intriguing already that I know I'm going to have to pick it up.
I'm still working on finishing The Audacity of Hope, which I started in Costa Rica. I'm almost finished, but I don't plow through to the end because I promised myself that when I'm done I'll start reading the writings of the other democrat hopefuls, and then see what I can find written by the republicans. Of course another part of the problem is that I prefer fiction to politics -- fiction, unlike politics, is never dishonest. Or at least it's honestly dishonest.
Or something.
:-)
I have Gain. I bought it the week I finished The Echo Maker, but I don't have any of the others and would love to borrow.
I'm glad to know I am not the only one who feels the need to complete the cycle, so to speak.
How is The Audacity of Hope? Is it well-written? That is another book I need to read, but I find that my love for fiction over rules my need for political stumping. I still have a little time.
I agree with you about the honesty of fiction.
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