Currently reading
Roman Blood
Progress:
171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Progress:
208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Probably the most amazing book about memory and family, I've read yet. It wasn't an easy read for me, Alex's letters and narrative were like reading "joual" for me. To read it I have to hear it. It's good that I watched the movie, (the story is different in both movie and book, both good but different) a few years ago. I was able to hear and read Alex's tales. Some of the descriptions are violently graphic. There's an underlining violence all through the book, some you expect it's a story about WW2 but the violence in the present (Alex's family) and in the past (Jonathan's family) were as difficult to read about as the acts of German soldiers. Happy I read it but I don't think I'll read it again. I don't need to, the images it created will stay in my memory for a long time.
