www Wednesday

I've been doing this for several weeks now and eventually I will learn how to spell Wednesday, such a weird word. What did I read last? Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie, who has become one of my favorite authors, it's a good story. It's told in memoir form in which our unnamed narrator tells the story of how as an French student in China she falls in love with a man named Tumchooq who bears the name of a forgotten country and language. This man's father and then himself and then finally our narrator spend their lives looking for half a lost Buddhist sutra written in Tumchooq. The story gives us not only our protagonists story but also the story of the missing sutra. My only complaint with the story is that it's at times pretty slow, but it's worth the reading.
What am I reading now? Loving Che by Ana Menendez, bet you can guess what it's about. It starts off as a story of a woman raised by her grandfather in Miami looking for the mother she never new and then becomes the story of the mother living in revolutionary Cuba, meeting Che and... well that's about as far as I've gotten so far. I like the way the story is being told in snippets of the mothers memories as she tries to relate to her daughter the story of her life.
What am I going to read next? Probably Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, I had planned to read it after the Dai Sijie book but my daughter has stolen it and hasn't finished it yet.