pickJamaica Kincaid‘s semi-autobiographical account of her growing up as a young girl on the Caribbean island of Antigua and the mixed feelings she feels for those central to her upbringing, namely, her beautiful, overbearing mother. Kincaid writes well of the many different gods we adopt and subsequently reject as we pass through childhood and into adulthood, and the accompanying feelings of sadness and loss we can feel doing so.
Can‘t believe we‘re in the last days of Caribbean Heritage Month but this is the last book I‘m reading this month “Mr. Loverman: A Novel by @bernardineevaristo
My weekend plans for #weekendreads
1. Finish Mr. Loverman and Red Clocks for #Roll100 .
2. Get stuck in to Childhood‘s End for #ClassicLSFBC .
I‘m pausing on Das Achte Leben for now. Will pick up again in April. 🤞
panEvaristo pens a suave, wise-cracking, impeccably dressed OAP admist the bedlam of his long awaited 'coming out' as he prepares to divorce his wife, Carmel, to start anew with his lover, Morris. Admittedly, most of the characters irked me more often than not, and my mind wandered throughout the last hundred-so pages as I wrestled with an overall indifference towards the immature/unlikeable supporting cast, and the self-centered protagonist.
pickMr Loverman was great! Bernardine has such talent for building communities and complex charaters within her books. A love triangle between Morris, Barry, and his wife Carmel. A wonderful exploration of living secret lives and the trials of being a closeted older gay man from a Caribbean community 🇦🇬
pickThis author is very angry, and I felt chastised! First among various reasons for being a tourist! It should be required reading for anyone vacationing in the Caribbean, where the tourists have plenty and the locals do not. Take for instance, water. Tourists can swim in it, and then bathe in it, and drink as much as they like. But many islands have no water source so the locals have to conserve every last drop. From there, the author delves ⬇️
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