This is my first post on my new blog. It feels like a new life. Going out on the World Wide Web! I will be joined in this endeavor by a library friend, who will introduce herself soon hopefully and be posting regularly. We are both avid readers and sometime writers of fiction, hoping to get published one day. I'm getting ready to begin what looks like a weeklong celebration of my birthday! Happy 60th to myself! Life just keeps getting better!
Since this is supposed to be about books I will tell you what I'm reading now, which is what I've been wanting to do for the last umpteen years. This weekend I'm reading "Lovingkindness" by Anne Roiphe. Published in 1989 it is what I think of as an accurate portrayal, at least 20 years ago, of what many contemporary American Jewish (or do I say Jewish-American?) parents go through when their children return to the faith (called Ba'al Teshuvah). This novel specifically concerns a mother-daughter relationship gone sour. I've read 150 pages so far and am liking it a lot. There are so many different takes on this ongoing issue and I would love to hear from you all out there on the issue and the book. For some it is not an issue, just a natural course of events, and for others it's family upheaval.
Time for the birthday celebration to begin!
Welcome to the book blogosphere! :-) Best of luck with your new blog.
ReplyDeleteThe book you're reading sounds very interesting; I haven't read it but I've read a bunch of novels that cover similar ground. Most of the books I've read treat the return to Orthodoxy as pretty traumatic for the families involved in one way or the other.
I am Lynn's library friend and I enjoy every title that Lynn recommends (so, yes don't ignore the titles she suggests). Lynn is a very important member of our book club and we will discuss Kathryn Stocket's THE HELP.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I've just started is Vikram Seth's
A SUITABLE BOY. I have to read atleast 50 pages inorder to post something about the book. In the meantime happy reading!
Thank you Marie for your support. You are the Queen of the literary websites! Thanks also for recommending "Earth and Ashes" and "Displaced Persons." I will add to my reading list.
ReplyDeleteThank you Shyamoli for your kind words. Shyamoli is not only a library friend, but a wonderful friend. I meant to say in my first post she is a librarian. Giving credit where credit is due!
WOW Lynn!!! How come you never mentioned this before? I love your blog and have now added many of your titles to my ever growing list of books to read. Keep up the good work of spreading the word on GREAT reading!
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