Currently Reading 6/16/09

Polar
T.R. Pearson

T.R. Pearson is one of my favorite authors. His trilogy A Short History of A Small Place, Off for the Sweet Hereafter, and The Last of How It Was, are hilarious reads. I highly recommend them. Pearson's style of writing may be viewed as long-winded by some. However, if you've ever come across a small country town you will admire this style as a true replica of small town speech patterns. Pearson's ability to tell a story keeps the reader intrigued and usually laughing. It is for these reasons I decided to delve into one of Pearson's latest works, Polar.

Polar describes the unlikely transition of a rather trashy old individual who spent his time watching and relating to others the exact details of pornographic movies to a soft-spoken, polite, prophet of sorts. Clayton's change is worrisome only to a sheriff's deputy in the small town in which he lives to whom Clayton reveals a fact about a young girl from the community who has been missing for many years. The difficulty is Clayton's prophesies arise at random rather than from direct questioning or confrontation.

I have around 100 pages left to read of Polar. So far it has delivered. Pearson has a gift for detailed and comical description which has continued in this novel. It takes place in a town near Roanoke, Virginia. As a resident of Blacksburg, just thirty miles south of Roanoke, I find comaraderie in its environmental depictions.

Opening Remarks

Hi! I'm an English major concentrating in cultural studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. I absolutely love to read, hence the major. I am fascinated with sixties and seventies psychadelic culture. I am in love with fantasy literature. I am a Harry Potter fanatic, I enjoy the Twilight series though I would not term that literature. The Chronicles of Narnia are another favorite as well as Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and Mary Poppins.

This blog was created to chronicle, describe, and rate the books I read, for pleasure, for knowledge, for school, etc. This blog will also serve to list and desribe my recommendations for others. Enjoy!