Friday, June 12, 2009

The Dark Room

This novel tells a story of a photographer, a young girl who stands as head of the family, and a husband who is in a search to know what his grandfather did during the war.

The setting of the first two stories was pre-war and during the war in Germany and the 2nd is during the war and the holocaust in Germany. The third story was in the late '90s. I never thoght I will like a novel set in one of the most gruesome periods in human history.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Catcher in the Rye

The story unfolds in 2 nights and 1 day in the life of a teenager who does not like anything, except his younger sister and his dead brother, and thinks that everything is phony.

The main character was presented to have believed himself to be mature but his thoughts and actions are childish, a common thing among yung adults. JD Salinger wrote with conviction and presented something so prevalent in a fashion where it is not almost abstract.