6/8 - Beginning Yan Martel's "Life of Pi"

Good morning everyone: as promised, I did complete Kate Walbert’s “Our Kind”, a novel told through short stories regarding American Women fraternizing in the 1950’s through marriage, having children, divorce, etc.

Today I began Yan Martel’s “Life of Pi” which I have wanted to read for a long time. Well, I started on the train today and hope to finish by Friday (Thursday night would be preferable). I have to drive tomorrow since I have one more night of refereeing football but then it’s subway for the rest of the week.

While I am concentrating on novels, I have also began reading the “Images of America” series, they do neighborhoods, cities, municipalities, etc. all over the country. I have really enjoyed the ones about certain areas of Philadelphia, especially around Broad Street learning about how Jewish communities formed.

I did go to the library last night and I have a number of interesting reads coming up including:

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” – Z.N. Hurston
“Flowers for Algernon” – D. Keyes (I believe I’ve read that one previously but wanted to revisit it again).
“That was then, this is now” – S.E. Hinton
“The things they Carried” – Tim O’Brien

If any of you have read any of these books or anything else by these authors, please feel free to share!