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blue_lotus13) wrote2005-05-24 09:43 am
blue_lotus13) wrote2005-05-24 09:43 am
What I've been reading lately
1. Lilac Moon- by Sharon Butala- A non-fiction book about Western Canada and Western Canadians. This book tried to decipher some of the history and ways of thinking of prairie people. It covered our uneasy relationship with First Nations people and the French, the history of farming, and the character of prairie women. I didn't always agree with Butala, and at some points I got tired of reading about her personal history, but it was still a good book.
2. The Middleman and other stories by Bharati Mukherjee- A collection of stories about immigrants in North America. Part of my goal to read more short stories, since I've been writing more of them lately. A decent book, but nothing amazing.
3. The autobiography of Malcolm X- as told to Alex Haley- An excellent book. At times, it was a bit of a slog, but I'm glad that I read it. I learned an amazing amount about history, as well as the history of Malcolm X, which I wasn't very familiar with. I was interested to learn about the various stages of life of Malcolm X. He went through many different personas in his lifetime. I was fascinated to learn that during his time in jail, he read about 15 hours a day. He originally started to become learned by copying pages from the dictionary.
It was very hard to read the section of the book in which Malcolm feels that white men are the devil. This part of the book seemed full of rhetoric and I wanted to quit reading. However, once I got past this part, and Malcolm had his realization and changed his viewpoint to a more encompassing view, I was really glad that I'd stuck with it.
2. The Middleman and other stories by Bharati Mukherjee- A collection of stories about immigrants in North America. Part of my goal to read more short stories, since I've been writing more of them lately. A decent book, but nothing amazing.
3. The autobiography of Malcolm X- as told to Alex Haley- An excellent book. At times, it was a bit of a slog, but I'm glad that I read it. I learned an amazing amount about history, as well as the history of Malcolm X, which I wasn't very familiar with. I was interested to learn about the various stages of life of Malcolm X. He went through many different personas in his lifetime. I was fascinated to learn that during his time in jail, he read about 15 hours a day. He originally started to become learned by copying pages from the dictionary.
It was very hard to read the section of the book in which Malcolm feels that white men are the devil. This part of the book seemed full of rhetoric and I wanted to quit reading. However, once I got past this part, and Malcolm had his realization and changed his viewpoint to a more encompassing view, I was really glad that I'd stuck with it.