Joshua's Bookshelf

I went on a major Star Wars spree in the last few weeks.  I read four book in three weeks.  Most of them were set near the movies, and helped fill out background on those characters.  After that I wanted something a bit more challenging.  My Nook Simple screensaver has a picture of Kurt Vonnegut and I picked up Slaughterhouse 5.

Twenty pages in I set the Nook down.  “Cripes,” I thought, “This book is trying to make me think.  What on earth is going on?”

 So I looked it up on Wikipedia.  I leave myself open to literary snobbery.  The reader I was, studying for my English Degree is sneering, somewhere in the back of my head.  Still, a bit of an outline and a basic theme summary always helps.  I’m getting more out of the book and enjoying it more.