So this is a bit late. Because I forgot to pre-do this. No clue why, I
just forgot. Anyways, I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year, because I like writing, so
I do that a lot. So there might not be as much time for reading as usual. So
I’ll try to keep it lower key, and then depending on how well the writing goes
I’ll try to do more reading. I don’t know where this is going. Let’s just do
this huh? Yeah.
This is the Book of the month for one of my Goodreads groups, and I
signed up, because I forgot about Nanowrimo, and now I feel committed. I’ve had
Eragon forever. It’s about a kid, who gets a dragon? This is what happens when
I don’t actually read a synopsis. It’s about Eragon, who finds a blue rock in
the forest and thinks, hey, maybe I’ll earn a buck, then it turns out it’s a
dragon egg, so not only valuable, but also awesome. Because dragons. It sounds
like fun, so that’ll be exiting.
I’ve had this on my shelf forever, because it felt like a book I should
own, and I bought it, and it’s been there for like… ever. Much shame. Anyways,
this is sort of the epitome of the Beat generation books. It’s about Sal
Paradise, a writer from New York, in 1947, who meets a guy named Dean Moriarty
(awesome name), who is the quintessential beat generation dude. He goes tearing
around the States and Sal pretty much just tags along. Kerouac was assumed to
have based Moriarty on himself, but apparently he based Sal Paradise on
himself. It’s a beat classic, so it’s exciting. I like it so far.
So this month I sort of decided, without realizing it, or doing it
consciously, to have a James Baldwin month. He is a very highly acclaimed
African American writer, and my local library had lots of his books, so out of
nowhere I took out these two. Impulse control is not something I do.Go tell it on the mountain
is a sort of semi-autobiographical novel and about the role of the Christian
Church in the lives of African-Americans in the 1950s. And it’s about
repression and hypocrisy related to blacks and the church. I don’t know much
else about it, it’ll be fun. Also it’s his first book, so that’s cool.If Beale Street could talk
is 20 years younger than the other one. It’s about Tish and Fonny, who are in
love. Fonny is falsely accused of raping a Pierto Rican woman. Meanwhile Tish
finds out she’s pregnant and she and her family and lawyer try to prove Fonny’s
innocence.
So both books are clearly
cheerful.
I’m trying to read a lot more feminist literature, because while I
identify as a feminist I don’t know much about it. Because I’m a lazy butt. And
I thought this would be an interesting start to that. This is a collection of
essays about what it means to be a woman. Her journey to becoming a woman
basically. I don’t read enough literature by people of colour, and feminism is
very white, so whoo. It’s gotten some pretty great reviews, so that’s fun. I’m
excited.
This is another book I have had forever. It’s a poetry collection. I
don’t know what to say about a poetry collection. It’s poetry, it’s Bukowski, I
assume it’ll be grumpy, and possibly a bit dark. So yeah.
I’ll also going to try to finish A Madness of Angels and Diary.
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Go tell it on the Mountain and If Beale Street could talk by James
Baldwin
Come on In by Charles Bukowski