What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Grief is just love with no place to go.
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Narrated by Karim Amir, a young man who declares in the opening sentences that he is "an Englishman born and bred", (his father is Indian and his mother English), the novel is crude, forthright and very funny.
Karim is a confused mixture of conformist and rebel, keen on sex with both men and women, dedicated to his immediate and extended family and yet keen to branch out and make his own mark on life.
This is a time of changing artistic and musical expression, with the emergence of punk music and avant-garde theatre, a time of rising mystical spirituality, which his father embraces, but nevertheless a time of entrenched racism against migrants of colour and and of obvious class divisions.
The joy of this novel lies in its language (often not for the easily offended) and its wonderful cast of characters. All of the characters, Karim's family, friends, fellow actors and sexual partners, are colorfully drawn and worth a wry smile, if not a full-on guffaw.
Kureishi is perhaps better known for his screenplays, such as My Beautiful Laundrette, but he has written plenty of fiction novels, and I look forward to the opportunity to read more of his work in the future.
4 stars out of 5
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Firstly, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, based on real life anti-slavery abolitionist Sarah Grimke, with novelist licence of course. A fair tale, lacking in substance and focus, a bit predictable and formulaic. Lacked the charm of The Secret Life of Bees.
Secondly, children's stories by E (Edith) Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It. Interesting in the historical context of early 20th century children's literature, but not as wonderful as, say, Lewis Carroll and his Alice novels.
3.5 stars out of 5 for both of the above.
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