Howdy readers!
Well, I've taken the plunge and am immersed in the first book for this project, Falling Man, by Don DeLillo. I anticipate finishing it tomorrow, but I'll share a few thoughts in advance.
I'm kind of in a love-hate relationship with this book. DeLillo delves into challenging subject matter, setting his book in post-9/11 New York. I applaud him for taking on the task of portraying the complex emotions that swirled around that event, and I find the various perspectives he provides fascinating. The book is written in a very disjointed, stream-of-consciousness sort of style which, while frustrating for me to follow, is a perfect reflection of the thoughts and feelings of the survivors, witnesses, and multitudes of stunned Americans who followed the events as they unfolded. Several story lines intermingle in disorderly snippets, and I have found myself momentarily confused with which character I'm following at a given time. Early in the novel, DeLillo describes the immediate aftermath in the city streets, with ash, debris, and papers flying wildly through the air. Reading Falling Man is like standing in the midst of that chaos, grasping scraps of a story, and trying to piece them back together. I can't say that I love this novel yet, but I will say that I can't wait to see how, or if, DeLillo ties the story strands together in the end.
Stay tuned for more details and, as always, Happy Reading!
--Kate
p.s. What are your opinions on how I should handle the books I have already read? There are some on the list that I have read but didn't mark because I don't remember them well. Others I will probably like to read again so I can have the chance to write about them here. What say ye? Let me hear from you! :)
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Sorry. sugar, but I think that you should read them all, whether you tackled them in Honors English in ninth grade or not. I'd want the satisfaction of being able to say that I had read each and every book as part of this endeavor. No gimmies. The full monty, Juile and Julia style. She wasn't like, oh, I made that wrapped chicken thing when I was eight, I'm going to skip that one. ;) You can do it! What's another thirty or so books when you're reading a thousand and one?
I knew you would be the one to say that. Since most of them are books I have enjoyed, it shouldn't be too bad. Man, it's going to be sad to see that ticker go down from 40 to 4 :(
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