27. "Just finished 2 books." In response to In response to 0 Thu Oct-18-12 09:33 AM by jane eyre
The Tao of Islam by Sachiko Murata This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.
I'm a huge Diaz fan. I was incredibly excited to see that my all-time favorite short story (written by any writer-- not just my favorite Diaz short story) was first in the collection. I had such high hopes. I kept thinking: how in the world can Diaz possibly TOP "The Sun, The Moon, The Stars"???!
The book wasn't what I hoped it would be, but it was still good.
Odd: I felt like the book may have benefitted from more time. Maybe there was a push to keep Diaz on the scene after Oscar Wao or something. "TSTMTS" was published back in the late 90's. As far as I know, that's the oldest story in the book.
I think I'm a bit let down because my inner-reader fantasized that each story I read would get progressively better than "TSTMTS".