Tuesday, January 6, 2009

One Down, Fifty One To Go!

I finished A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown. Here is what I thought:
This memoir was really a fast and compelling read. It was good enough that it made me cry multiple times; I may be a wuss/vulnerable but it was really sweet at times and sad at times and just ran the whole gamut of things that would make me tear up. The writing style is not one that I am typically used to, as it had a lot of slang (Cupcake is "down") from not only a different culture, but a different time. I learned a lot about foster care, gang bangin' and law school.

Next up is Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. It is the first book that my book club (Chelsea, Me, Barack Obama) is reading. It looks like this:








Your faithful reader,
Christopher Z
P.S. spelling suggestions for 'wuss': woos, buss, cuss, fuss, muss, russ, suss and wkss.

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