I don't normally participate in the Booking Through Thursday meme. Actually I'm really bad at keeping up with any meme's. I try, I just get busy and distracted and then poof, my meme posts are no more! Anyways, It was this weeks Booking Through Thursday question that got me: Name a book (or books) from a country other than your own that you love. Or aren’t there any?
I'm an American, and while I would add more than a few home grown writers to my favorites list, I just generally gravitate to foreign writers. Typically I end up reading Europeans. It's not a purposeful thing, but it just sort of happens.
My favorite foreign discovery of the last few years would have to be Milan Kundera. He's a Czech writer currently living in France. His Unbearable Lightness of Being is my favorite book. I'm actually waiting for the copy I put on hold at the library to get in. I'm hoping his familiar words can get me out of this reading rut I've been in these past two weeks.
What about you? Do you find yourself reading works by people in far away places or sticking closer to home?
I found this over at Audrey's Holes in my Brain and it looked fun so i decided to get in on the chain.
Basically, just answer the 'phrase' with a book title you have read this year! My answers are more a mix of story elements and just great fitting phrases but you can answer however you want!.
# In high school I was: One Day (Nicholls)
# People might be surprised I'm: A Vintage Affair (Wolff)
# I will never be: The Pope of Greenwich Village (Patrick)
# My fantasy job is: The Book Thief (Zusak)
# At the end of a long day I need: Raise High the Roof-beam, Carpenter (Salinger)
# I hate it when: Brave New World (Huxley)
# Wish I had: The Thirteenth Tale (Setterfield)
# My family reunions are: The Heights (Hedges)
# At a party you'd find me: Juliet (Fortier)
# I've never been to: Norwegian Wood (Murakami)
# A happy day includes: Remarkable Creatures (Chevalier)
# Motto I live by: Arcadia Falls (Goodman)
# On my bucket list: I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti (Melucci)
# In my next life I want to be: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Rowling)
Book Beginnings on Friday is a new meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading. If you'd like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence.
I just started Juliet by Anne Fortier a few days ago and haven't been my usually speedy reading self.
Here's the opening sentence:
They say I died.
I'll admit, not the most intriguing opening sentence I've ever read, but it did carry the necessary push to keep me reading. Like I said I just started the book and look forward to finishing it. More than anything I look forward to seeing how this sentence from the prologue relates to the rest of the story.
