Friday, August 3, 2012

It makes you think

One of the great things about reading is that it gets you thinking about a lot of things. So, here are some things books have got me thinking about this week:

1) Historical accuracy. How do we know an author is portraying an accurate representation of a time period and not imposing current values on a past era?
2) Love. What is love, really, and what does it mean to love? How does one balance oneself and love?
3)Truth and honesty. Why would anyone want to live a life where they can't tell what is real and what isn't? Isn't it hard enough to understand reality without adding complications?
4) Being okay with oneself. How do we like ourselves when the people close to us don't seem to? How do we resist the pressure from others and see ourselves as we really are?
5) Suspension of belief. At what point does an author cross the line and expect us to believe more than is possible?
6) How does a book become a classic?
7) Why does this book have so much filth in it? Is it possible to accomplish the same thing without the trash? 

These questions, and many others, brought to you by:
Elegy for Eddie, by Jacqueline Winspear
Midnight in Austenland, by Shannon Hale
The Trouble With May Amelia, by Jennifer L. Holm
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (I did not finish this book. I got about halfway through, and was just not really finding it that great. So I took advantage of the fact that it was due and I couldn't renew it and dropped it off early. I wanted to read it because everyone knows the catch-22 phrase, and it seems like it should be read, but I found that knowing what a catch-22 is is sufficient).

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