At the moment I'm stuck. I am reading a million different things hoping one will catch me and pull me into the abyss of "I must finish this book tonight." So I'm plodding through and none have gotten me. Lots of potential, a bunch of good but not great. So here's the hit list currently: "Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald" by Therese Fowler. This one strikes my fancy for the Ex-Patriots and the time in which all was swell in the world of literature. When the world oozed great writers and their words. And a fictional book about one of the big guns (Fitzgerald) and his relationship with his wife (Zelda) has great potential. It also contains one of my secret passions. . . southern culture! So I am really hoping that Fowler knocks this one out of the park. What scares me is that it falls into the same line as "The Paris Wife" which I just couldn't get through.
Book number 2 on the currently reading list is "And The Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini. Now this one isn't available until late may but I was lucky enough to score an advance readers copy (a great perk of working in the book business!) I enjoyed his other two books so much, in fact they were both books that induced tears. I don't cry easily while reading, now show me a sad commercial or a sick kid in a show and I'm a ball of blubber, but books usually don't turn on my waterworks. What I fear the most here is that Hosseini is at a crossroads. This is the crucial book. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and "The Kite Runner" were similar stories, formatted very much the same and followed the same plot form. He needs to do something completely different with his new book or her could fall through the cracks and become a James Patterson. He is such a gifted character writer that I really don't want to see this happen to him, I hope he can prove me wrong.
Ok, enough food for thought for the moment, I'll be back with 3 and 4 of the currently reading hit list.
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