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| Art is Life : Lines from works that you love. | | 74 | hemlokgang, May 30 |
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| Kindley Book Club : Brick Lane by Monica Ali | | 30 | readerbig, May 21 |
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| Reading Globally : Immigrants, Immigration and It's Issues. | | 64 | urania1, May 8 |
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| Reading Globally : The veiled, oppressed Muslim woman overexposed? | | 49 | inverness, May 1 |
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... makes a book great for me personally! I can see The Inheritance of Loss achieves more as a work of literature than, say, Brick Lane. It was clever, beautifully written and politically aware. But I enjoyed Brick Lane more, probably because I engaged with the main protagonist in a way I ... ... Things and Hotel Du Lac,but not a quite as much.
I'll agree with FlossieT on One Good Turn and with Urania1 on Brick Lane.
A de-nudge I'm afraid for The Dead Father's Club, which I really didn't care for. ... sensitivity but the protagonists assimilation process portrays our cynical, consumptive Western culture in a bad light.
Brick Lane by Monica Ali is a book mentioned on other threads and portrays an East Indian immigrant woman dealing with cultural shock in London.
... and Anthony Hopkins is excellent. I also liked Purple Hibiscus. Personally, I think both The God of Small THings and Brick Lane are overrated - good but not wonderful. I have Dead Father's Club. I have attacked it three times, and each time I have drifted off to something else. Its ... ... Kiran Desai
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
The God of Small Things by Arun ... A strong denudge for The Birth of Venus and a nudge for Brick Lane. ... I would like to teach a course in The Immigrant Experience in Literature. HoSaF would certainly be on it, and most likely Brick Lane as well.
The Sedaris is a denudge for me: silly, poorly told, and unfunny. ... days!). Great portrait of the period, fascinating characters. Have you read the oohers in the series?
I'll also nudge Brick Lane. Although I thought the ending fell a bit short, it was a beautiful book overall. ... novels when I was about 20. If you want something light it might be good.
I have When we were the Mulvaneys and Brick Lane unread here too. Interesting to read your comments Kevin on BL Kevin - I gave it a good go as soon as I bought it, but lasted about 60 pages before giving up. M ... I'm going to nudge Brick Lane, even though I agree with Karen (kiwidoc) it wasn't as good as it's hype, I do think it was much better than the battering it got from a number of critics.
It is a very British novel too and I feel like I'm sticking up for a local hero. Although the book is set ... I have read Brick Lane but thought it was overrated after getting so much acclaim. It was a 3/5 star read for me. Cannot nudge it, but read it if you are fascinated by the Indian immigrant dilemma in England. To explore the same theme, I much preferred The Road Home by Rose Tremain. Not a ... Well I love anything David Sedaris writes, so I would always recommend him. I also really liked Brick Lane. Faulkner is good, but difficult (in my opinion). He always feels like school work to me. I read The God of Animals and didn't really care for it, but I think I'm in the minority. ... by Joyce Carol Oates
A Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck
The Rose Grower by Michelle De Kretser
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
The Birth ... I can't remember if I've mentioned this yet?
I got three books from a work friend:
River God
Brick Lane
The News from Paraguay
From a friend the Stephanie Meyer Twilight series *all* of them
From the library:
Absalom, Absalome
Through a Glass Darkly
... which have been on one of my look for lists. Two Ron McLarty novels. Sari Shop, a recommendation from TrishNYC. Brick Lane, Hidden, Marley and Me, a illustrated 1948 copy of The Moonstone, Interpreter of Maladies, Abide With Me, Ghost, Shutter Island, The Seduction of W ... ... have something else to go to after Secrets of a Family Album which I have not read.
I loved Monica Ali's first book Brick Lane so much I bought a pile of copies and handed them out to friends. I met her at a signing and was just thrilled by her. And then I read Alentejo Blue which is ... #115 streamsong: Sounds like I need to find a copy of Brick Lane. It sounds very good. Thanks for the recommendation!
You mention one of the reasons I do not like to listen to nonfiction in audiobook form. I like to consult the bibliographies on nonfiction as well as make notes and find ... 59. Brick Lane byMonica Ali
Wonderful first time novel about a Bengali (Bangladeshi) immigrant woman who moves to London after her arranged marriage. A lot of insight about the immigrant experience as well as a beautiful story about coming into one's confidence and becoming who we are.
A ... I'm also in London with Bangladeshi immigrant Nazneen in Monica Ali's book, Brick Lane. Authors New to Me
1. Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox
2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
3. Stiff or Bonk by Mary Roach
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I'm about a third of the way through Monica Ali's Brick Lane. I'm really enjoying not only the portrait of immigrants from Bangladesh but Ali's writing and humor.
I'm also reading Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck. It's the fictionalized biography of the last empress of China, Tzu Hsi. ... Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Eccentric London by Benedict Le Vay
A Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris
Appleby House by Sylvia Smith
City of Glass by Douglas Coupland ...
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala,
The Namesake and The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri,
or Brick Lane by Monica Ali.
For Cuba Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps or Before night Falls by Reinaldo arenas
for Brazil anything by Machado de Ass ... It's older than both Brick Lane and White Teeth. Early 1990s. Brick Lane? Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
The Dolly Holiday by Anne Dunlop ... Pamuk
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
Cherry Ames, Student Nurse by Helen Wells
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
... how I measure up :)
But my birthday was last thursday and it's tuesday now so I'll start my year from bday to bday...
1) Brick Lane by Monica Ali dunno how I picked it up but I don't think I really like it... it feels forced; forced creativity.... I still haven't formed a true opinion on ... Still reading brick lane and not really enjoying the second half. I also keep getting distracted by the guardian. ... second to amanaceerdh # 164 about the poisonwood bible, the history of love, the namesake, septembers of shiraz and brick lane. I thought they were all wonderful and in reverse order of my preference - I liked brick lane best and the poisonwood bible least, ).
There is a film of the ... ... bible, the history of love, the namesake, the septembers of shiraz, unless (which i am reading now), and brick lane.
and so many of the books listed are on the top of my to be read pile: small island (which i think i will read next), the colour, fingersmith, the ... ... for me on my tbr shelf!
I love the mysteries of udolpho very much, despite the dodgy poetry!
I'm currently reading brick lane which is wonderful in its balance of tragedy with comedy. Although I think it's all about to turn ugly!
304: rebeccanyc, I read Brick Lane by Monica Ali and that got me started on Indian writers. I've been enjoying many books by Kiran Desai, Marsha Mehran, Jhumpa Lahiri, V.S. Naipal and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
The book that I enjoyed most that was written about India was Sha ... I just added several books to my inventory including Brick Lane which has recently been turned into a movie, a really nice hardcover copy of The Blind Assassin, Princess in Waiting from Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series, and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan among other things!
http://bookmooc ... Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
The Jew Store by Stella Suberman
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer Thought I'd just mention that I watched DVD of Brick Lane and although I enjoyed it the book is so much more!! Did anyone see the Brick Lane movie? And, if so, was it any good?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0940585/ The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
Brick Lane Monica Ali
The Cement GardenIan McEwan
The High Window Raymond Chandler
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams Brick Lane by Monica Ali - I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Dealing with issues both personal and political the story of Nazneen and her family held me enthralled from start to finish. 54. Brick Lane by Monica Ali/
Loved this book. ... to your blog to read your entire review, I got a message that said "The blog you are looking for was not found". I've got Brick Lane in my tbr pile for an online group read later this fall.
Annix thank you so much for your thoughtful and educational reply. I learned a lot and it will really ... I've written a review of Brick Lane, the book I read for this theme. It can be found here. Still in England, not only with Brick Lane, but also with A Beekeeper's Apprentice. ... Center. Of course, I had to buy some books, too:
1. Notes on the Occupation: Palestinian Lives by Eric Hazan
2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
3. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
4. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie
5. Wrack and Ruin by Don Lee (a ... I'm still working on Brick Lane, but when I read the scene where Chanu and Nazneen are visiting Dr. Azad, something jumped at me. It's always the women who want to adjust to the new culture and men who want to keep their own (at least in the house), especially when the women have more freedom in ... ... Netherlands, with Hans Brinker, although I'm not far into the book yet.
Lastly, I'm in England, following Nazneen in Brick Lane.
Ah, the travels you can make when you read, and much more cheap than flying everywhere! ... the teenage rebellion and eye-rolling faced by even non-immigrants. I seem to remember I noticed some of this attitude in Brick Lane, although it's been a while since I read it.
I wonder if others have noticed that sort of dynamic in their books? I'm reading Brick Lane at the moment, and the very first thing that struck me (even though I'm not very far into it yet) is how important language is. Navneen can't communicate with anyone except a select few from the community she lives in, because she doesn't know English. This leads to an ... ... the ability to discover other worlds, particularly other worlds within my own.
I want to second the recommendations of Brick Lane and anything by Lahiri (although I haven't read Unaccustomed Earth yet.) I'll be excited to learn what you think.
As far as what I'm reading, I'm thinking ... Currently, I'm in Pakistan, as I'm just beginning to read Brick Lane by Monica Ali ... lives to drink from the pools of each other's sadness. From these special watering holes, each man drew strength."
From Brick Lane by Monica Ali ... pick-ups:
The Lizard Cage, Karen Connelly
The Country of Men, Hisham Matar
Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison
Brick Lane Monica Ali
Women Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Edited to fix link ... experience, and arranged marriage between an educated Bengali man and a young uneducated woman. It is reminiscent of Brick Lane by Monica Ali, but not as good, imo.
I don't think the Homecoming was half as powerful or moving as the Reader.
(touchstones are wrong). Schlink ... ... here to there. I passed it along to my 12-year-old daughter--I think it would really speak to the YA audience.
I liked Brick Lane quite a lot. The Namesake was good, but I prefer Lahiri's short stories, which are brilliant (and I'm not a short-story fan, so that's saying a lot). The Time ... Cariola, we seem to have read many of the same books on this list! I, too have read Brick Lane, The Namesake, The Time Traveller's Wife, and Notes on a Scandal.
I've also read Love, plan to read Small Island this month, and will get to Purple Hibiscus, probably over the summer. I've read a few more of these: Brick Lane, The Namesake, Small Island. I started but haven't finisihed The Sari Shop, and in my TBR stacks are The Time Traveller's Wife, The Great Fire, and Notes on a Scandal.
2004 LONGLIST
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus - shortlist
Monica Ali, Brick Lane
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake - shortlist
Rupa Bajwa, The Sari Shop
Stevie Davies, Kith & Kin
Stella Duffy, State of Happiness
Maggie Gee ... ...
Aha! Name our group Antisocialics
Anonymous!
Nearly finished with A Thousand Splendid Suns and will go straight to Brick Lane from there! ... and The Summer of 1787 by David O. Stewart.
Of course, now I find myself in a reader's dilemma, still working on Brick Lane, The Rain Before it Falls and now Pretty Birds: A Novel.
Yikes! Not to mention I just saw in the Washington Post that Elizabeth George has a new ... ... read' and thus another related thread. I thought you might like to also be part of that thread by posting your thoughts on Brick Lane over there also. There's quite a few interesting books posted over there:-)
Here is the thread, if you're interested.
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph ... zip for Jersey so I started Brick Lane instead.Will they turn out to be really similar, or not so much. #43
I agree with your thoughts on Brick Lane. Because I work with immigrants I've read many books about assimilation and immigration, both fiction and nonfiction. This book, I think was an honest portrayal of the challenges of assimilation, rather than a broad statement about Muslim women.
I ... But we shouldn't assume that because an author paints a bleak portrait such as the woman in Brick Lane, that she is trying to make such a broad statement. I took Brick Lane to be much more a story about immigration, assimilation (or not), poverty and so forth when I read it, rather than making ... I feeling sheepish, because I just recommended Brick Lane, and for many good reasons
But -- the lives of the Bangladeshi women in the book are relentlessly bleak. I found this unlikely. Her Muslim women were either forced into prostitution, beaten, or criminals, or saintly. The feistiest ... I do recommend Brick Lane. As I mentioned on my Kindley group, I'm fascinated with those people I don't know, but wish I did. I live in Queens, so there are many Bangladeshi women in their hejabs, who inhabit their own worlds.
I'd love to share your thoughts on this one.
Pamela ... religious beliefs from this book. The only books I had read previously about Muslim women were fictionalized accounts like Brick Lane and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I thought it was important to read a nonfiction book about the subject.
I lent out Brick Lane to a friend, never got it back, and now she's moved out of state. It wasn't my favorite book, but I happened to buy it on a trip to London - what with the exchange rate it was worth more in a financial sense, but it's still an annoying loss. I should have insisted on ... Hi Pamela...I just downloaded the "sample" of Brick Lane. It certainly makes book-buying more foolproof when you can get a little preview of the subject and the quality of writing. My first Kindle-day, I stayed up till 2:00 a.m., browsing and buying! Hi Pamela...I'm new here too as my Kindle only arrived this past Wednesday.
I will certainly check out Brick Lane or any book nominated for the Booker Prize.
Keep Kindling and posting!
Ruthanne Borders Bargain Bin:
Brick Lane
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Queen of Shadows: A Novel of Isabella, Wife of King Edward II ... Schmidt,
A. L. Kennedy,
Nathan Englander,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Tzitzi dangarembga,
amy Levy,
monica Ali,
zakes Mda,
Buchi Emecheta,
Zbigniew Herbert,
Czeslaw Milosz,
Adam Zagajewski
Wyslawa symborska
Kenneth Rexroth,
Irene nemirovsky.
... ... immigration seems a reasonable category. (Though I can see some nice grey bits around the edges: the protagonist in Brick Lane is, as far as I understand it, forced by her family, but I would imagine that her experiences are probably close to many who chose to emigrate from the Indian ... I'm almost finished Brick Lane by Monica Ali which I am loving and almost at the end of Chaos by James Gleick. After that, the only book left is The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, another Booker winner - finished The Sea by John Banville last week. Then it's a trip ... ... by Sarah Dunant
Alaska/The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Korea/China/War Trash by Ha Jin
England/Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Africa/A Far Country by Daniel Mason
Iraq/The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Burma/The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Around Europe ... ... rather more to do with gut feeling than with anything more scientific), Alentejo Blue is not a Bangladeshi novel - but Brick Lane perhaps is, in that it is partly set in Bangladesh, and that's where the characters are from.
I'm not doing this just to tick countries off a list as quickly ... Need some help deciding my April read. Should it be Brick Lane by Monica Ali or Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir? ... in April. It's the story of a Moroccan woman who was imprisoned first in a harem and then in a jail.
I also found Brick Lane by Monica Ali.
Which would you suggest I choose?
By the way, I have two very cute graphic novels (dealing with the topic of Muslim women) by Marjane S ... ... Resource
14. The Heartbreak Grape
both by Marq de Villiers and both highly interesting and informative
15. Brick Lane by Monica Ali ) - a good story and well written but kind of depressingly realistic - not a book to escape with
16. Quartet in Autumn - the best of the Pyms ... White Teeth--I can't recommend it enough. It takes place in a North London borough I think.
I also second Brick Lane. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Christopher Fowler's Roofworld
Martin Amis's London Fields
Monica Ali's Brick Lane
Geoff Ryman's 253
China Mieville's King Rat
Tobias Hill's Underground
To be honest there are so many novels set in London or about London it might be ... Finished Howards End, which was pretty good. I think I'm going to give up on Brick Lane as I'm finding it rather boring after all, which is a shame after the promising start. The fact is, I'm only half-way through after 5 days - a sign that I'm avoiding the book which is a big pointer towards ... Currently listening to an audio book of Howards End by E. M. Forster. Also reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali. ... excellent).
Currently listening to an audio book of Howards End by E. M. Forster (which is pretty good) and reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali (which is also pretty good so far). ... a Bollywood starlet making a film in the UK and an English businessman.
I second the recommendations of The Namesake, Brick Lane, and White Teeth.
Other suggestions:
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam. Beautifully written, haunting novel about a community of Pakistanis ... Well, nothing in my current book grabs me, but here's a passage from Brick Lane that I thought was stunning:
"The baby was astonishing. He had little cloth ears, floppy as cats. The warmth of his round stomach could heat the world. His head smelled like a sacred flower. And his fists held ... ... realistic edge.
Anything by Zadie Smith or Monica Ali will have cross-cultural themes...I particularly recommend Brick Lane and White Teeth. ... tranfers very well to film, but I will still want to see Atonement.
Friends in England, isn't there a new film of Brick Lane just out? That could be interesting. ... - Stephen King
I've started planning out my October reading too:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Out of Africa - Karen Blixen
Carter Beats the Devil -Glen David Gold
I'm looking forward to them already! Although I liked the book overall, I thought Brick Lane had an ending that just didn't fit at all. It was almost like s different author wrote the last few chapters. I just found Brick Lane in an opp shop. What did you think of it? I haven't heard much about it at all.
And congratulations on reaching 100! 98. 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry - Andrew Bridgeford
99. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
100. Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
Well, that's my goal met! I accomplished it far faster than I ever anticipated. I should probably set it at 150 now, but I have less than two ... One couldn't call it A Hero's Walk but after trudging down Brick Lane, struggling to reach The Other Side of the Bridge and finally coming to the Coast Road I turned and gazed back at the skyline and realized it was Another City, Not My Own.
Authors, in order of appearance:
Anita Rau ... I still have not read my Sarah Waters' books, and neither have I read Brick Lane, which is buried in one of my TBR piles.
Your comment, karenwardill, makes me feel the urge of tackling them asap. Having read Sarah Waters Fingersmith around the same time as Monica Alis Brick Lane - I have to say that I preferred Sarah Waters, way preferred her.
Sarah's subsequent books were of a very high standard too, great reads and no disappointments, which I think gives her added ... ... postscript, I second the two Atwoods, The History of Love (liked Man Walks into a Room as well, although not as much), Brick Lane, and The Bluest Eye. As for the rest, I will have to add to my already staggering TBR pile.
*wanders over to check out the bookshelves, glass of wine firmly ... ... Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
* Australia - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
* Bangladesh - Brick Lane by Monica Ali
*Brazil - The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo
* Canada - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
* Chile - My Invented Country ... ... about how it is affecting other places, Europe, for example, unless something shows up on the news or I read a book like Brick Lane. But I read a little book a few years back and found it very enlightening, and recently the book sparked a longish conversation on borders, the sovereignty of ... ... and read. But don't yet have the book!!
Some books I have enjoyed are:
The Lovely Bones
The Colour Purple
Brick Lane
Books by Mitch Albom
I like reading books about people's lifes, as I'm nosey!
Can you help??
I see Seiffert is on the Orange Prize longlist and one of the few on the list I thought I might be interested in. Loved Brick Lane...it's so difficult for an author to follow up such a highly acclaimed first novel.
David Mitchell, of course, qualifies, as does Zadie Smith. ... hardback a book called Afterwards.
Just inside the age criteria is Monica Ali a British Bangladeshi writer whose Brick Lane was universally praised but the more recent Alentejo Blue is less well regarded. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
Union Street - Pat Barker
On Green Dolphin Street - Sebastian Faulks
Who in Alberta wanted rats??? Sounds fascinating LynnB - I must get a copy. ... a couple of weeks with very little internet access.
So far this week I have thoroughly enjoyed both Monica Ali's Brick Lane; and Joanna Harris's latest - Gentlemen and Players : a novel, a rather brutal crime story set in a lesser English public school. Both vividly told stories. ... ... when the plot needed to go off in a different direction and the consequence is struggle to make a poor fit. Then on to Brick Lane by Monica Ali a prize-nominated novel about a Bangaldeshi woman living in South London. Very different from The Impressionist even though there are some ... Brick Lane by Monica Ali covers a broad range of immigrant experience. The main character comes to England from Bangladesh at the age of 18 to marry. Besides the intriguing portrait of one woman's life, I thought it also it interesting for showing the push and pull of the homeland on the ... ... finally finish The Inheritance of Loss and liked it very much. Parts of it reminded me of Harbor by Lorraine Adams and Brick Lane by Monica Ali. I thought I was probably missing a little history of the region, but still, it was a moving story of very human beings, nearly all of them ... ... know, rebeccanyc, about the Desai. As I have been reading, it has reminded me a little of Harbor by Lorraine Adams and Brick Lane by Monica Ali...although the style and storytelling is very different. Small Island works - odd that it wasn't working before! Great book, albeit a bit flawed. Brick Lane and White Teeth are interesting if you enjoy that, if a bit different. The Buddha of Suburbia is a London novel too, despite the suburban slant.
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