Book Reviews

Title: Guests

Author: Michael Dorris
Number of Pages: (optional) 119
Genre: Young Adult
Book Number/Goal: 1 of 5  to be read in a year

Review: It's a very solid coming-of-age story. Moss, frustrated by the strange guests cming to the feast, impulsively went to the forest to look for who he really is, and finds a more complicated answer than he suspected. I love the lush metaphor dscribing Moss' away time and I like Trouble very uch. The characters are very real to me.  I like how their stories are intervined in their Native American tradition.

Title: Things Fall Apart

Author: Chinua Achebe
Number of Pages: (optional) 148
Book Number/Goal: 2 of 5  to be read in this year

Review: I love the unsentimental overview of Nigerian life before colonalization. Okonkwo was a hard man, whose greatest fear is of perceived weakness. His tragedy is caused by this fault, yet compunded by the invasion of colonialism and drove him to his end. The writers manages to make Okonkwo sympathetic yet critical of him, and the story has a tone of folklore just before the white come, which fit. Achebe is a good writer and his talent already shows in his first book.