I love reading and I think I have a wide range of taste BUT it has just been announced that The Lacunaby Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Book prize and coincidentally I am in the middle of reading it. She wrote the Poisonwood Bible which many say was their favourite book and I enjoyed it but was not bowled over, it was a bit like walking through treacle, however I was determined to try again….The Lacuna is well-researched but the main character is dull, I am interested in the historical side (and I hope it is accurate) about the exile of Lev Trotsky to Mexico, a piece of history I know little about. I have to admit to being confused in the first 100 pages but I am battling on for the next 550 and I think I am starting to enjoy it though confusion keeps setting in – maybe that’s just my age.
Glad someone else feels same way about Barbara Kingsolver books!
I thought I was alone in not enjoying Poisonwood Bible, finding it lecturing and dull, which is making me slow to try the Lacuna. In contrast The Long Song, by Andrea Levy, was such a brilliant book – I can't wait for her to write another.
Thanks for that tip, I will try The Long Song next.
Annabel