Hours of reading: 8.5
Hours of listening to audiobooks: 2
Books finished: 1
Books in progress: 2
Kate's update:
Hours of reading: 7
Books finished: 2
Books in progress: 1
We're at the 24-hour mark, and I've managed to add another 4.5 hours of reading to my total. I also listened to my audiobook for 1.5 hours today, while exercising, cooking and driving.
Kate has had a very productive day so far, finishing Flyboy and writing a review for Alexandria of Africa and Beverly Hills Maasai. She is now working on Gone by Michael Grant and so absorbed in it that I can barely make contact with her.
The book I finished earlier today is Bone China by Roma Tearne. This novel follows three generations of a once-wealthy Tamil family, with matriarch Grace as the central figure. As the family suffers a decline in their fortunes and personal tragedies caused by the political upheaval surrounding them, the members leave Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) one by one and settle in England.I didn't find the story as engaging as other immigrant stories I've read. However, this novel is worth reading if you want a sense of the cultural and political history of Sri Lanka in the second half of the 20th century. Tearne describes movingly the ordeals faced by those who escape the ethnic violence by relocating to a foreign land as well as those who choose to stay behind in the aftermath.
I just recently read Gone and it's a good one. The next one is called Hunger and in my reading pile. Have a good weekend.
ReplyDeletelove that you have a mother daughter book blog I should do that! :)
ReplyDeleteI'll have to add that book to my library list, it look good.