I will confess...
I did not finish Jewel.
I do not like boring in a book- it is an unforgivable sin (imo, of course). There are living people all around us willing to bore us silly, I don't think we have to tolerate that in a book, which does not have feelings. ( I know how sensitive you are, and YOU are not the teensiest bit boring. I was thinking, at the moment I wrote this, of the poor old man I met at the pool, on his little Lark, who kept talking to me, and talking and talking, while I was trying to grade research papers. His life wasn't totally boring, but he was deaf, so it was impossible to clarify anything, and his dentures were not perfectly fitted, so he talked as if he had marbles in his mouth (or mouf) and it was VERY hard to understand him, and he just wouldn't shut up, but I felt sorry for him, since he was obviously so lonely. 45 minutes is a long time to spend doing that sort of thing - so it was on my mind).
I think I told you how much I like Life of Pi. It is not boring. I also loved Disobedience, which wasn't boring either.
I am starting, today, Night of Many Dreams (by Gail Tsukiyama- who wrote Women of the Silk and the Samurai's Garden), High Maitenance- by Jennifer Belle, and Desirable Daughters, by Bharati Mukherjee. I will let you know how they are, and give you the good ones. |
