Hey ya'll. I started reading this month's book. It is pretty easy. I'll probably finish it tonight after I do my lesson for Sunday. How's everyone else doing on their reading. I know Aanor finished it. 'Til later. Love you all:)

The Stranger

I finished the book. It is really good. It seems like a foreign book. The style is just different. Camus seemed to hide the character Meursault throughout the book, and it seems you have to make up your own mind about him, in the end. But it reminded me of the Catcher in the Rye, and the Tell tale heart. Anyway, just thought I should say something just because it was my month. Take care

The Stranger in February

The Stranger it is! I also liked the idea of reading Wuthering Heights, so I'll read that one too, for my own reading pleasure. I'll start a-reading. See on the next post.

The next book!

Hey ya'll, the next book we are going to read is The Stranger by Albert Camus. It looked like an interesting book, so I picked it up. It should be good, from what I have read it seems worthwhile though it is a little short. And if my word is not good enough for you it also won a Nobel Prize. But despite it being short, I feel a lot like Tash, there is much we can soak up. We can go as deep as we want, or only read the surface.
The book I have was translated by Matthew Ward. The book was first published in 1946. The story is of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach. It explores "the nakedness of a man faced with the absurd."
After reading that I felt it might be in the same light of some of Poe's work, and also, Pascal was French, so that's why I bought it.
It should be a quick read, but I hope we find a lot to say about it, and a lot to learn. So I hope you like it, and happy reading.

Line from the book- "the curious feeling a son has for his mother constitutes all his sensibility."

Skull monkey

WHAT BOOK NEXT

Have we decided on what book to read next? I still sense some confusion. I had heard some people offer a way of choosing a book and they all sounded pretty good to me. I don't think we all have to agree on a certain book. I think the real intent is to read books we normally wouldn't read--expand our reading apparatus! So, in keeping along with this theme I think we should allow one person a month to choose the book we are going to read. The following list is my suggestion: Aanor-Feb; Tasha-March; Shane-April; Aaron-May; Monique-June; Hondo-July; Mother Louis-August; Sam-September; Toya-October; Kumen-November; All of us-December. Let me know what you think?