With everything else going on in my life why did I think I could read
100 books before the end of the year?
Well, I haven't given up, I think I can do it by augmenting my usual reads with some
short but
good books. I know their out there and though the
Brown Eyed Girl's Book Club doesn't seek out books of any particular length ( though some members have thumbs down books for being a little too long, or have requested we give ourselves more time to read before we meet again) we have read books we have enjoyed that have been around 200 pages or less.
Memories of my Melancholy Whores 
by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a favorite read of mine and provided a good discussion as I remember. We read several of
Alexander McCall Smith's books -
Tears of the Giraffe
, and
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
, both enjoyable and also what I would consider a fast read. Having read
Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima 
in college as did most of my friends, we were happy to read his
Serafina's Stories
which entertained us with a number of cuentos/ stories told by the hero of the story Serifina, a Pueblo Indian in 1680 who by entertaining the Govenor with the stories wins the freedom of a dozen Indian prisoners.
So to better my chances of reading 100 books I will include the following books (that I think won't dissapoint) on my to do list:
Breakfast at Tiffany's by
Truman Capote,
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 
by
Sijie Dai, Shop Girl by
Steve Martin,
Ethan Frome 
by
Edith Wharton,
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 
by
Mark Haddon, and
Push 
by
Sapphire.
If anyone can suggest any other fast but very good reads it would be appreciated!
Hello! :D
ReplyDeleteI saw Breakfast at Tiffany's at a bookstore once and was curious about it. Let me know how you like it!
-Sofia
Then I can recommend a book I just read - Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women. I just returned it to the library, so I don't know how many pages it is. But since it's short stories you read it pretty quickly.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for your travel tips on my blog!
Sofia - will do. I'm sure it's nothing like the movie.
ReplyDeleteChennifer - I'll look for your recommendation on my next visit to the library. I will be looking out for updates on your upcoming trip. I'm sure you'll have some interesting adventures to fill us in on!