“Spell the Month in Books” s is a linkup hosted on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month so I’m a wee bit late.
Our month is JUNE! And history is the theme of the month. So I can do this – June has 4 only letters and I’m a history buff so I’ll get a couple of those. Ha!
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (definitely historical fiction)
Underworld by Don DeLillo
(a favorite of all time book)
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich – (more historical fiction with parts set in DC 1952 ‘
Enough by Casey Hutchinson – history-making events
Becky's Books - 
Ah, Becky, help me out here, tell me why I should read Underworld. I have my father’s copy and I’ve tried to read it twice. I don’t have any strong feelings about why I didn’t continue it, I can’t even remember why that was. But though I don’t want to part with it for sentimental reasons, I need a reason to try it again.
(I have form: I made repeated attempts to read War and Peace before finally reading it and loving it.)
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Ah Lisa – LOL! Did your dad enjoy it? I tried so many times to read Infinite Jest but I gave up – I don’t like it and I won’t like it next time. It is just too objectionably male, all sports and drugs and being nuts. There is no required reading in my life these days. I read fewer and fewer of the Booker Winners each year. I finally gave up trying to get through Duckes, Newburyport, too. LOL.
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I think he did. Though it was a present (not from me), and it’s possible he was just being nice…
I am less attracted to contemporary publishing than I used to be. Most of it just doesn’t appeal.
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I’m getting more and more the same way. I enjoy the nonfiction but the fiction is too ??? – imaginative? out there??? – I wonder what my literary elders thought when the new magical realism or post-modern novels came out. Sometimes the new stuff Is pretty good like the turn to historical fiction – but I can do without the stupid stuff. LOL.
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I would still rather read a novel.
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