Thursday, May 27, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
You know why I read ? Read all those random books that no one has heard of . that dont make it to those lists that are treated like God has made them , when it is actually another frail human being or maybe sales has decided it should go onto a list .
When I read someone like Michael Ondaantje it makes the whole thing worthwhile , to read a whole lot of stupid books .
I have just read DIVISADERO by Michael Ondaatje . It is fantastic how he can get the reader interested in little stories and feelings without a start , middle and end to his story .
After I read a book by him I just feel - my god all these people , I want to meet them . No, I know people like this . And the ends are not tied up and tidied away in a neat closing scene .
But isn't that life ? Is there ever a " The End " in any of our lives .Read it
When I read someone like Michael Ondaantje it makes the whole thing worthwhile , to read a whole lot of stupid books .
I have just read DIVISADERO by Michael Ondaatje . It is fantastic how he can get the reader interested in little stories and feelings without a start , middle and end to his story .
After I read a book by him I just feel - my god all these people , I want to meet them . No, I know people like this . And the ends are not tied up and tidied away in a neat closing scene .
But isn't that life ? Is there ever a " The End " in any of our lives .Read it
Been reading a bit
LACUNA by Barbra Kingsolver -- Its about Mexican Artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo their lives , their friendship with Trotsky and then of course how the USA handled (mis) the communists in their midst
Lacuna is a mexican word for an underwater cave in the sea , which when the tide is right lets you swim up to an opening in the middle of the island
A very clever pun on the blackness of thought - when a country refuses to use its common sense and goes on a senseless rampage of accusations .
I wonder if its is something to do with the western culture or Christianity . The Spanish Inquisition , The Salem Witch Hunts , The Holocaust , The red threat , and now the Terrorist threat from the Muslims .
Then a book called 'Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother ' by XINRAN -- Female infanticide on a large unacknowledged scale . Well, what is there to be said about it ? Women are doing it . Why ? Does it affect all of them ? What is the pressure / force from the other side that allows parents to kill their children .
Is not the instinct to pass on their genes supposed to be the main force that drives all beings on ?
So then how do they go about killing that instinct ?
Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski -- A first person account of his contact with a remote tribe in Thailand , an anthropologists life there , and some missionaries . Trying to talk about Animism without offending the Christian Missionaries . Anyway it is a fictional tribe . I dont know what he is trying to say and in any case the print was so small that it took me ages to read it
LACUNA by Barbra Kingsolver -- Its about Mexican Artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo their lives , their friendship with Trotsky and then of course how the USA handled (mis) the communists in their midst
Lacuna is a mexican word for an underwater cave in the sea , which when the tide is right lets you swim up to an opening in the middle of the island
A very clever pun on the blackness of thought - when a country refuses to use its common sense and goes on a senseless rampage of accusations .
I wonder if its is something to do with the western culture or Christianity . The Spanish Inquisition , The Salem Witch Hunts , The Holocaust , The red threat , and now the Terrorist threat from the Muslims .
Then a book called 'Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother ' by XINRAN -- Female infanticide on a large unacknowledged scale . Well, what is there to be said about it ? Women are doing it . Why ? Does it affect all of them ? What is the pressure / force from the other side that allows parents to kill their children .
Is not the instinct to pass on their genes supposed to be the main force that drives all beings on ?
So then how do they go about killing that instinct ?
Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski -- A first person account of his contact with a remote tribe in Thailand , an anthropologists life there , and some missionaries . Trying to talk about Animism without offending the Christian Missionaries . Anyway it is a fictional tribe . I dont know what he is trying to say and in any case the print was so small that it took me ages to read it
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