I am not quite finished, and I don't mean to pre-empt a possible discussion point by Erin, but this is my favorite piece of dialogue in "March" so far.
An old slave woman, upon being chastised for whippin' kids, says: "You tell me now; what the good Lord go make switches for, if it ain't for lickin' boy chilluns?"
I LOVE Geraldine Brooks.
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Hurrah! It came in for me at the library! I'm starting it today. Hurry forth without me; I catch up fast.
I haven't started yet, but my mom will be in the hospital this week (knee replacement), so I'll probably read tomorrow morning while she's in surgery.
And this from the narrator: "In the months that had followed our marriage I quietly conspired to build beauty into our daily life."
Fantastic.
Not to start a gender war with the boy chilluns among us, but I think this is one of the lines that reveal that it's a woman, Brooks, behind the male narrator. Every time I come across something like that I stop and think whether a male author would have written that or would even have conceived of Mr. March in precisely the same way Brooks did.
OK, the week's up. Let's get postin'.
Anybody finished yet? I'm still pokin', I'm afraid.
Yeah, there's been so much going on lately I still have about 100 pages left. But I'm off for the next two days, so I should be done very soon.
You mean I was the first one to finish? Ha!
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