First, I would like to wish a happy Holy Week and Passover to anyone who is celebrating.
Now, on to the books.
I finished Seneca’s Letters to a Stoic last week. A review is forthcoming.
Because of my 2017 bookish resolution to read more contemporary works and more books on contemporary events, I purchased The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches From Syria by the war journalist Janine Di Giovanni.
I’ve only read the first chapter, but I hope to read it in a couple of sittings because I prefer to read disturbing books quickly.
I’m also 30% into Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou, which is on the 2017 Man Booker International longlist. It is about a young Congolese orphan during the Marxist-Leninist Revolution in the 1970s.
The shortlist will be coming out soon, so we’ll see if the book makes it to the next stage.
What do you think of Black Moses so far?
It’s interesting, but nothing has wowed me yet. I have the impression that important events are about to unfold in Moses’s orphanage.
I suppose it is early days yet