Still working on The Jungle---little Antanas has died tragically and Jurghis has taken to the road. He jumps a train and makes his way into the countryside. Some brief happiness follows but he's barely living, merely existing from day to day and suppressing his grief. What next can this man endure??
Meanwhile, I've decided to lighten things up a bit for my upstairs reading, and so have begun The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You'll like this epistolary novel if you like historical fiction (how the islanders coped with German occupation [the Germans thought they'd use Guernsey as a staging ground for the Battle of Britain, but stuck around for the duration of the war even after giving that one up]), or if you love quirky characters. On the first face this book seems light and frothy, but as you read you'll be amazed and impressed with how the authors build a complex story. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
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