White Teeth & Song of Solomon

[Bekah]

I really enjoyed Song of Solomon - read it eons and eons ago - 1980s?   One of Morrison's best works, imo - also Tar Baby.     I really did NOT enjoy White Teeth but I might oughta look at that one again because I adored  Smith's On Beauty and her latest,  NW.  

The Art of Fielding was okay-to-quite-good.  Nice entertainment,  I suppose.   It really might have been a good candidate for the Pulitzer because it fit the rules  and suggested theme better than anything else submitted.  (Swamplandia is stupid and the other two weren't even nearly finished or first published within the US in the given year -  David Foster Wallace just missed the boat by dying early.)

Bekah


On Jan 7, 2013, at 3:31 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> These novels open with a man wanting to take his won life, the black
> humor of suicide as flight. Did enjoy those Smith essays, not got
> round to the latest fiction, been stuck in the art of fielding, kinda
> weak style, baseball...and atonement, and chabon, and gawd, more
> dickens than...well...yeas...to much of a good thing....and I will
> glad to see a new P novel...who knows what he's been bloody up to his
> knees in down on the cutting and killing floor?