Since I am free of schoolbooks for the summer, I'm taking the opportunity to read fiction, and various other books purely for interest! It seems like such a luxury! So far, I've already gone through:
- The Undomestic Goddess, by Sophie Kinsella
- My first foray into Sophie Kinsella chick lit. A very light read, funny and pleasant and easy to digest. Sort of like jello - it's nice and goes down easy, but it doesn't have all that much nutritional content.
- A Year in the Merde, by Stephen Clarke
- The story of an Englishman who moves to Paris and adapts to French culture. Hilarious and biting humour. I highly recommend it for anyone who's not too sensitive or easily offended.
- A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews
- A Mennonite girl who doesn't fit into her community tries to adapt to her mother and sister's abandonments. I'm sure it's a very deep book with lots of insights about human nature, but I don't know how accurately it portrayed the Mennonites. It made them out into a hypocritical and judgmental cult whose youth are all druggies, whereas the impressions I've heard from people who have dealt with them is that they are kind and gentle.
Currently I'm on:
- The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker
- Exciting exposition that human nature does exist, is encoded in our DNA, and there's no getting away from it.
- Rereading Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
And I still want to read:
- Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
- For the life of the world : sacraments and orthodoxy by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
I'm also open to more suggestions, since it won't be long until I'm finished with the current selection! Anyone recommend anything they've read lately?
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