💠Every few blog entries, I'll recommend two books from my reading list. I'm a very eccentric reader, so I'll post everything from historical fiction to homicidal manifestos.
1.
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
The Color Purple is an indispensable literary classic. Poignant, raw, perceptive and free-thinking, this book will take you on a journey. From the Black America of the 1900s, to the newly colonized Africa of pre-WWI, this is a story about being Black, but more importantly, about being human. It is, too, the radical notion that people have been BOTH for CENTURIES, and beautifully so. If you want a book about EVERYTHING- love, hate, despair, hope, loss, triumph, distaste, desire- THIS is it.
The film does not do justice, in my view, to this masterpiece. Somewhere, smack-dab in the middle of a post-colonial, post-emancipation America (and world!), Alice Walker's characters till and bicker and laugh. They live. And they remind us that we are still- even in the twenty-first-century- pre-equality and pre-freedom in so many ways.
2.
This slim volume about soon-to-be heavy purses treads the line between novella and short story. Randomize is as faced-paced as its characters are fast-thinking and fast-moving. I'm a computer programmer's daughter, so my deep appreciation for all the crooked nuances of this story is definitely rooted in some background knowledge. You don't need to be a tech junkie to enjoy this one, though. It's crime and family and business and culture. It's the economy and love and Oh My Gosh- breaking down more of those gender stereotypes. "A system is", after all, "only as secure as the humans who operate it.” Andy Weir's extremely accurate observation, not mine :-D
You know how there are people who can wear anything and make it look great? Well, Andy Weir is the literary version of that. He can write anything about anything and make it sound AMAZING!
No comments:
Post a Comment