What I've been reading
Nov. 19th, 2010 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichigan"Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945 by Ruth Brandon. This book provides context for the Surrealist movement and the Dada movement before it. I think the fact that it was written by a woman gives it a different perspective than other books on this period, too.
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"When We Were Orphans" by Kazuo Ishiguro. This book centers around a British boy whose parents disappeared while they were living in Shanghai, presumed the victim of kidnappers. The boy, Christopher, grows up to bcome a famous detective and determines to go back to Shanghai and solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance. The writing had a very dreamlike quality that made me want to keep reading and reading. I have to read more by this author soon.
Read my full comments on both books here.
and
"When We Were Orphans" by Kazuo Ishiguro. This book centers around a British boy whose parents disappeared while they were living in Shanghai, presumed the victim of kidnappers. The boy, Christopher, grows up to bcome a famous detective and determines to go back to Shanghai and solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance. The writing had a very dreamlike quality that made me want to keep reading and reading. I have to read more by this author soon.
Read my full comments on both books here.
