November 23, 2010:
Finished "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink. Starting as a 15-year-old boy and a 30-something woman's affair and leading through her trial years later as a nazi war criminal, it was interesting, though the main character was mostly spineless. The "secret" wasn't much of a secret. Whoever did the translation of this did an excellent job. This was a welcome contrast to Falling Awake's poor writing.
December 9, 2010:
Finished "Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette" by Sena Jeter Naslund. Poetically and patiently written from Marie's perspective from her entry into France until her beheading. A lot of research went into it. I was wondering how the author was going to tell the beheading part of the story given that it was written in more or less a diary format from Marie's perspective. I thought she handled it well.
