I haven’t posted a book review in quite some time. Honestly, it’s because I haven’t finished a book since the bread cookbook. I’m reading four books at a time right now.
- The Blue and the Gray : the story of the Civil War as told by participants / Edited by Henry Steele Commager .
- Collected Fictions / Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Andrew Hurley.
- Breathing Trouble, and other stories / Frederick Busch.
- At War as Children / Kit Reed.
At War is a grade school book. I supposed I could sit with just that one and bang it out in a day, but I’d rather not. It’s a buffer between the heavier books. Breathing Trouble is a short book, only 190 pages, but I linger with it for the same reason. Blue and Gray and Borges’s book are heavier in the sense that they describe things that grab at my heart; that clutch my imagination in vise grip ways. I read them carefully, letting my brain chew through the words, digesting the images slowly. In order to stay on track and finish both of these books on time I need to read between 20-30 pages a day. Today, being MLK Day, I hope he won’t mind if I honor him through reading the day away.
~*LunaSea*~ 