Last week
happened to be very rich in literature events. You know, I sometimes get very excited when I
talk about books or authors. They are my real passion and I just don’t have
enough strength to walk past any bookstore I come across (sometimes it gets
even problematic cause I swear, I don’t know how I lose so much time there).
Thus, as I’m a true reading geek, I just couldn’t miss the opportunity to share
my impressions regarding literature news. There are two of them, in particular,
that impressed me the most.
So, here we
go.
A new book
by Harper Lee “Go Set a Watchman” has been released on July 14th. I
haven’t managed to buy it yet but I will certainly do! “To Kill the Mockingbird”
is one of my favorite books and here comes the next one. It’s surely on the
bestseller list on Amazon and I suppose it couldn’t be any other way. However, I’ve
read the first chapter kindly published by The Guardian and I have very mixed feelings. That’s
certainly not what I expected but I can’t evaluate without seeing the big
picture. I definitely want to purchase the full version and then I’ll be able
to settle on my opinion.
By the way,
you can also listen to the first chapter of “Go Set a Watchman” read by Reese
Witherspoon. Intriguing, isn’t it?
But that’s
not all. Canada Post created a stamp
with the image of Alice Munro, the first Nobel Prize winner in Literature
from Canada. I think it’s a real honor and she totally deserves it. I love her
short stories written in a simple style. They are so deep that you sometimes wonder
how it is possible to fit this world in such a small number of words.
That’s
quite impressive and I suppose gives some food for thought. Well, I hope next week will bring me more joy
in the form of literature events and I will definitely share with you.
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