Since my last post I have begun a new book titled The Last Girls by Lee Smith. In The Last Girls four old friends reunite in Memphis, Tennessee to venture down the Mississippi River, just like they had done in college many years ago. These Mary Scott College students had decided, while reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in their Great Authors class, to travel down the Mississippi to New Orleans on a raft, Huck-Finn style, with a big group of their classmates. Now these four women, with nothing in common but the college they went to and the adventure down the Mississippi, meet again to journey down the river one last time to try and come to terms with their shared past.
This new book is a drastic change from The Lovely Bones! The Last Girls seems to be an upbeat and sometimes comical story about these four women’s past and present. Also unlike The Lovely Bones, The Last Girls seems true and I feel like I could relate to the characters. In The Lovely Bones the concept was hard to grasp at some points and I definitely didn’t relate at all to the main character, Susie. I am a little anxious to see if I will like this book. It is a lot different from anything I have ever read before—usually I like to read mystery—but I am ready to try something new and see if I like it.
3 comments:
That sounds like an interesting book. Do you think that it will be a very serious book? It reminds me of a movie called Fried Green Tomatoes with it's female protagonists.
I think that Brisingr is the best one of the series but if you want to understand it you have to go through the other ones. I don't think they are bad or anything just that if you don't like fantasy don't read them because they aren't the highest quality and if you read them you might give up on fantasy as a whole and that would be a waste.
by the way NA is Irini
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