Life of Pi - Finally finished reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel, an intriguing book, about a boy stranded on a life raft with a tiger after the ship on which his family was traveling from India to Canada was sunk. It sounds preposterous and I was reluctant to read a book that from the beginning I thought was not believable. The story is written well and after a few pages I was hooked, with thoughts of Siegfried and Roy running through my head.

The unusual ending requires an entire rethinking of the book in terms of what is real, what we want to and can believe, and how we preceive the stories of our lives.

Now it's time for True North by Jim Harrison, “a contemplative saga of one wealthy and dysfunctional family in Michigan's Upper Peninsula from the 1960s to the 1980s.”.
posted by Bruce Wright at 10:50 AM #