Bibliokitty

After reading Richard Powers’ dense novel, The Overstory, Playground is definitely a much easier read, but there are many different thematic threads woven through Playground that I found myself feeling disoriented about what the novel is supposed to be about, and then the end hit me with a sledgehammer and left me feeling devastated.

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I decided to read Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement because I thought Leave the World Behind was an interesting enough story, so perhaps this story would be too. But no, Entitlement is just as dumb as its protagonist.

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I enjoyed Xochitl Gonzalez’s Anita De Monte Laughs Last so much that I decided to read her first novel, Olga Dies Dreaming. At first, I wasn’t sure I was going to like this novel because of the problematic titular protagonist, but Olga, and the novel, grew on me, and I ended enjoying this story almost as much as Anita De Monte Laughs Last.

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The premise of Fruit of the Dead – a modern reimagining of the Persephone and Demeter myth – intrigued me, but I was worried that Fruit of the Dead was going to be too abstract for me to parse, or perhaps too pretentious to enjoy. This novel is neither of those things, but honestly, I do not know what to think of Fruit of the Dead. It is not bad, but I do not think it is very good either. It is interesting, but I was not really invested in the characters.

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