Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin is one of my all time favourite books. I was very pleased to see this on the list as I was long overdue to read this again. Set in 1970's San Francisco amid the vibrant Gay scene, it centres around the characters living in an apartment complex owned by an eccentric landlady. I love all the characters in this series even the nasty ones. They are struggling to find their way, juggling who they are with the person they want to be. I can identify with that.
BOOK CHALLENGE 36/1000 (42)
The Human Stain by Philip Roth is a first time read for me. Another book I had never heard of but am very glad to have met. There is a quirky rhythm to this book. The author makes a short statement and then goes on the explain it in great detail. It has kind of a one step forward, two steps back kind of pace. I liked it though. It was different. I'm looking forward the reading the other book on the list by this author.
Coincidentally both these books had characters who had achieved success by pretending to be a different colour. In Tales of the City a struggling model uses drugs and achieves success as a black model whilst in Human Stain the main character is a pale skinned black man who passes as a white man for years in a racist society. Neither character was happy with their deception and I suppose there is a moral there somewhere that achieving your dream through lies is not a good thing.
The reading task has not been going too well recently. I have been focusing on other things. There has been housework to do and films to watch. I spent a lot of my spare time working on my script which is now finished. It's now time to get back to the printed page and lose myself in the fiction.
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