A Reading Update

I finished The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. I really did not enjoy this book after about the halfway point. I kept reading because I thought maybe it will get better. No, just more confusing and violent. It won a Pulitizer Prize for Fiction (2016) so maybe I am just not smart enough to see the greatness in this book. I tried reading The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia by Kiran Desai. I returned the book after about 20 pages. it was not holding my interest at all.

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What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. The author is Australian and all her books are set in that country. They are what I would classify as “chick-lit” (which I personally find an insulting, dismissive book label) but not your typical love stories. The premise of this book is the main character suffers a head injury and has no memory of the last 10 years. At first I thought the book was going to be pure fluff, but the more I read the deeper I am finding this book. What would you do if you suddenly woke up with no memory of the last 10 years of your life, but everyone else remembers everything.