While in Maine, I read (and finished on the plane ride home) the book "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt. It's the author's memoir of growing up poor in Ireland. I wasn't all that impressed with it. He used the word "arse" quite a bit, which just conjured up images of a certain episode of "Friends" where the annoying friend comes back from England and thinks she's British.
For a similar, and in my opinion, far better story, check out A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I think this book is geared more toward teens, but I think it's a great story, and characters feel much more "real" than the people in McCourt's book.
Now I'm on to Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" for the book club, or more accurately, the catching up-pedicure-coffee shop-book club.
2 comments:
i've heard that Angela's Ashes is really good... but i had a non-traditional student in a class with me at UDM who was a cancer survivor and he said three people gave him that book when he was in treatment. he suggested not doing that to other cancer patients.
I really liked Angela's Ashes. The things that I realy like about it is that it is a true story (or at least based on his real life) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is fiction- right? Having said that, I didn't really love his next two books: 'Tis and Teacher Man. (His life story continued)
Would you have liked it better if he would have used the word assin?
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