Besides being behind on The New Yorker, I’m in the middle of reading four books and not making much headway with any of them. The first is a great novel called Shantaram. I put in on the back burner because, although it’s a thick book, I’m enjoying it so much I don’t want it to [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Buried in books
Posted in books on May 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
"Nickel and Dimed"
Posted in books on May 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich. It was an easy and illuminating read. Her experiences as a low-wage earner in several different states in the Union were not a surprise to me – I’ve been a waitress and a retail worker and even did a (very) short stint cleaning offices. I know the [...]
Jhumpa Lahiri
Posted in The New Yorker on May 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I just read the Jhumpa Lahiri story (“Once in a Lifetime”) in the May 8th New Yorker. It was a bit like her novel, “The Namesake” in that it portrayed an Indian family transplanted to Cambridge, Massachusetts and the society of fellow-expatriots that they join. As in the novel, the family moves out to a [...]
