Friday, January 9, 2009

Suite Francaise

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, was my lastest read.
It was good.
Very good, in my opinion. It was one of those books that I just kept itching to read even though I had other things I needed to be doing. It was one of those books I had to force myself to put down so I would go to sleep at a decent hour.
I will admit that some of the descriptions of humanity were all too realistic at times and unnerved me a little bit, but that is what made it so fascinating. I wanted to know what happened to The Michaud's, to Madeline, to Lucile and to everyone else mentioned in the book. Keep the characters straight was a little difficult (for me) and I am not sure why. I think it was because of their french names. I was distracted by Monsieur this and Madame that, but I managed to figure it out.
It was a good read that captured the esscense of human beings or animals (in a few cases).
Its a shame that Irene was captured and died in a concentration camp, I think we could have seen some wonderful things from her, had her life not been cut so short.

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