Recent Reading
The Echo Maker is a very strange book, and very hard to describe. While telling the story of a year's worth of relationships (a brother, a sister, medical professionals, villains and helpers) is explores the meaning of self, reality, motivation and man's relationship with nature. One reviewer called it the most literate response to the attacks of September 11 he'd seen. Alienation, paranoia, and uncertainty are definitely major ingredients, even though there's nary a terrorist to be found in these pages.
Literacy and Longing in LA initially seems completely different: ChickLit set in TinselTown with the novelty of a literate heroine. (There's a five page addendum to the books Dora refers to in the text.) But I guess all that reading does have an influence! Whether you know most of the references, or not, you'll sympathize if you've ever "escaped" into a book... as in escape FROM your real life. Dora's a master at it... but we all know that reality is only as far away as our priorities pretend. Written by a pair of women from whom I hope to see many more explorations of life in our time.
The Echo Maker is a very strange book, and very hard to describe. While telling the story of a year's worth of relationships (a brother, a sister, medical professionals, villains and helpers) is explores the meaning of self, reality, motivation and man's relationship with nature. One reviewer called it the most literate response to the attacks of September 11 he'd seen. Alienation, paranoia, and uncertainty are definitely major ingredients, even though there's nary a terrorist to be found in these pages.
Literacy and Longing in LA initially seems completely different: ChickLit set in TinselTown with the novelty of a literate heroine. (There's a five page addendum to the books Dora refers to in the text.) But I guess all that reading does have an influence! Whether you know most of the references, or not, you'll sympathize if you've ever "escaped" into a book... as in escape FROM your real life. Dora's a master at it... but we all know that reality is only as far away as our priorities pretend. Written by a pair of women from whom I hope to see many more explorations of life in our time.
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