Books...

My mother keeps discussing Kate Atkinson's novel Life After Life with me over the phone. All I can say is the reviews online have been misleading. I thought it was a novel about a woman who keeps dying and gets born again, or something similar to Jonathan Carroll's Marriage of Sticks. But apparently not. It appears to be more in the what-if this happened instead of that vienne. At any rate, it sounds like a very confusing book.

( confusing discussion of Life after Life with my mother, who is reading it and I haven't )

Margaret Atwood is getting preachy in The Blind Assassin. The men in this book are well..not likable. Which is actually my problem with Atwood. She's a bit negative on the male gender, which at times comes across as a sort of reverse sexism. Don't know why - she appears to be happily married. Maybe not?

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