Gulls as flags. Sandy Bay Rowing Club, Marieville Esplanade Sandy Bay. June 2011.
For some reason unbeknownst to me the two excellent, substantive and thorough book reviews I’d drafted this week have disappeared!
Thus you are stuck with the truncated versions.
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya: a fascinating rendering of the effect of Stalin’s Great Purge on one woman, written at the time by an author who similarly suffered. A decent read and a fascinating historical document. Well worth your time.
The Pearl by John Steinbeck: based on a Mexican folk tale, an interesting story of the risks of bucking established patterns and roles in life. This colourful reconstruction on life as an indigenous Mexican pearl diver won’t challenge you too much, but it is worth a read.
5 comments:
...however, all reason will still be lost during the teen years.
Cool gulls ... great colors ... teriffic photo.
Bummer about the lost reviews. I speed read The Pearl in high school, just before the class in time to take a quiz - which means I got zilch out of it. Will re-read. 3 of my favorite Steinbecks, in order of preference: Sea of Cortez (felt like I was on the boat/shore with them), Travels with Charlie, and East of Eden.
Tash, poor old teens. I can see why The Pearl might not resonate with a teen.
Isn't it great when you have spent days compiling a vast array of facts only to come back later and find nothing. It happened a couple of times to me. Extremely frustrating. The redraft looks nothing like the original.
It never does.
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