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December 17, 2007
Good night
I'm reading "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith, and I like it a lot. It's a good book to pick up right after "The Satanic Verses," both involve Indian subcontinent immigrant groups in London, the clashes between secularism and Islam, the immigrant's struggle against or toward assimilation. With 50-some pages left until the end, I like Smith's book better than Salman Rushdie's, though Rushdie may have had a bigger, firmer point to make, a more subtsantial idea underlying everything he wrote.
I want to finish "White Teeth" tonight, but the elements are not cooperating. It's cold outside, and without a strong blast of heat directed at me I start to shiver, I lose my ability to focus. With a strong blast of heat directed at me, however, my eyelids grow heavy and I have to go to bed. I think I'll go to bed right now, in fact. Good night.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at December 17, 2007 10:21 PM