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March 03, 2006
What I'm reading now
Louise Erdrich's The Painted Drum. I started reading it on the train but did not get very far because I was tired and kept falling asleep into the aisle. I've been hanging out for her next book ever since Four Souls, which I think was absolutely wonderful. The first chapter is a version of a story in the New Yorker that I read a while ago and enjoyed so I'm curious to see what she does--there are two other chapters that appeared as short stories in the same magazine. I'm curious about the whole book. She does interesting things with structure and weaves different narrative strands skillfully.
The Life of Pi. Loved the intro to this, the writer's story of how the book came about. And I've got a few pages under the belt but my husband reports that he is not going to continue after getting about 80 pages in, and has been stranded in the zoo. We tend to like the same books but not always.
Posted by girija at March 3, 2006 09:56 AM