Sunday, 8 May 2011

Des bouts par-ci par-là


Exams in one week -
10 from Monday to Saturday to be exact.

On the plus side, I finally finished a book, and what a book!
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is amazing.
An absolute A+
For a review that pretty summarises my own feeling, read this:
http://www.pajiba.com/book_reviews/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-by-junot-diaz.php
As someone who was born and raised in a country that is not the country of her parents, some aspects of the book rang particularly true.

When my exams are over, I need to go over all the footnotes again and pick up a book on the history of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. I can't believe I've never heard of Trujillo...although, if the DR is part of a mandatory two second review in US schools, goodness knows it wouldn't make the cut in French schools. We don't even learn about French colonies for fuck's sake.

The book did provide inspiration for the final editing (which might as well be called a rewrite at this point) process of my book (sidebar) and I also need to pick up a history book on Jamaica. Why go looking for mysterious and exotic locales when I can pick my (family's) own?

Have now started The Hobbit. Will move on to the LOTR trilogy afterwards. I kind of saw the first one so the first chapter in The Hobbit is actually fun to read cause I still remember the images.

Does anyone know who drew the image above?

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