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by Mark Haddon
Done! It was a fast and very refreshing read as compared to the last novel I took up. As it is categorized under Young Adult Fiction, the narration was quite straight-forward yet highly entertaining. I guess I could blame my sleepless nights on this piece of lit because I had a difficult time putting it down. Haddon is truly a gifted writer!
Related link: Random House's audio excerpt
by Arundhati Roy
Oh boy... I don't know what to make of this book. To tell you the truth, it took me months (4 months to be exact) to finish it.
Maybe it's because of her writing style. She commonly used all these flashbacks in her novel which made it quite confusing for me to keep track of the story. In fact, in the early stages of reading it, I had to go back to the beginning maybe two to three times just to refresh my memory of what she had earlier written. The unusual names of the characters in the book were also a struggle for me to recall.
With that said, I am just glad I'm done and definitely over with it. On to the next...
By Jhumpa Lahiri
What an wonderful read! This has got to be my favorite literary piece so far. Lahiri is an exemplary story-teller.
It tells about the life of Gogol, an American of Bengali descent. His family migrated to the States from India and the novel relates how migrating to a foreign land is never really an easy task.
There are several lines from the book which I can so very well relate to:
But nothing feels normal to Ashima. For the past eighteen months, ever since she's arrived in Cambridge, nothing has felt normal at all. It's not so much the pain, which she knows, somehow, she will survive. It's the consequence: motherhood in a foreign land. For it was one thing to be pregnant, to suffer the queasy mornings in bed, the sleepless nights, the dull throbbing in her back, the countless visits to the bathroom. Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing disconfort, she'd been astonished by her body's ability to make life, exactly as her mother and grandmother and all her great-grandmothers had done. That it was happening so far from home, unmonitored and unobserved by those she loved, had made it more miraculous still. But she is terrified to raise a child in a country where she is related to no one, where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and spare.
UPDATE (09 March 2007):
I just found out that The Namesake has been made into a film with Kal Penn as the lead actor and Mira Nair as director. It starts showing in the States today. I can't wait to see it here in Oz. The trailer looks quite promising so I'm pretty excited to see if the movie is as well made as the book.
By Audrey Niffenegger
This takes love stories to a whole new different level and approach. All the time travels may seem too science fiction-ish to be believable but Niffenegger sure does an amazing job of pulling it off with ease.
I loved how simple it was written. Definitely not a single boring/dragging part. Needless to say, I was up all night, trying to find out how the story ended. I was not disappointed whatsoever.
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