In other news, we are watching
Dinner last night: spaghetti with kalamata olives and sun-dried tomatoes. Mmm...
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Reading, watching, eating
Just finished Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. I really think she is a masterful writer of short fiction--I was biased against her because I read her only novel, The Namesake, first and didn't think that much of it. But her stories are so luminous and yet so concrete.
In other news, we are watchingThe West Wing starting with season one. We have a lot of free time in Bangladesh... I was a huge fan of Sports Night, Aaron Sorkin's previous outing in television, but somehow having it actually be political types talking about politics instead of sportscasters just makes the whole thing a hair too earnest for me.
Dinner last night: spaghetti with kalamata olives and sun-dried tomatoes. Mmm...
In other news, we are watching
Dinner last night: spaghetti with kalamata olives and sun-dried tomatoes. Mmm...
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Jhumpa Lahiri is AMAZING, and Interpreter of Maladies was absolutely phenomenal.
But, see, I also liked the Namesake, although I will agree with you that it was much different than Interpreter of Maladies. Have you read her others?
Others I loved:
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Anything written by Richard Russo
Angela's Ashes
Oh, I could go on forever. But I love Jhumpa Lahiri!
Yes, I have read her newest, Unaccustomed Earth, and it was excellent--also a collection of short stories. Though honestly, I think I may like Interpreter of Maladies best of all.
I greatly enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha and now really want to get to Kyoto during our next tour in Beijing!
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