Latest Books

I haven't blogged in awhile, with the beginning of school, but I will comment quickly on two books I have recently finished: Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski, an excellent academic-inspired novel that reads like a memoir but is pure fiction (the lines continue to blur). The title refers to the work an anthropologist does when he/she goes into the field to study a particular group up close. The anthropologist at the center of this novel is a woman who, when the novel opens, is serving time in a Thai prison for murder. A curious writer researches her story and a complex and interesting tale unfolds that connects Christian missionaries to this anthropologist and the Thai natives she is studying. I also finished Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God which is essential reading, in my humble opinion, for women today. Books on tap: Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates); Frankenstein (Mary Shelley); and A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf).