2010 Reading #5: Gone Fishin'
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snurri1. Young Adult Novel by Daniel Pinkwater
2. Avilion by Robert Holdstock.
3. Passing by Nella Larsen.
4. A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley.
5. Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley. The sixth Easy Rawlins book is not set a few years after the previous one; nor is it a mystery. Flashing back to 1939, Gone Fishin' concerns events from Easy and Mouse's youth, events previously alluded to but never told in detail. Easy accompanies Mouse on a trip from Houston to Pariah, Texas, where Mouse was born; there Easy faces up not just to who his friend really is, but to what he himself may become. Easy before L.A. and before the war is directionless and ambitionless, but also seems to fundamentally lack a will of his own. For such a life-changing book--Easy's life, that is--this is a very quiet novel, almost meditative. Considering that Easy spends a large portion of the book in a fevered state, perhaps that's not surprising. Overall, a nice change of pace for the series, and a particularly fitting follow-up for the events in A Little Yellow Dog.
2. Avilion by Robert Holdstock.
3. Passing by Nella Larsen.
4. A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley.
5. Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley. The sixth Easy Rawlins book is not set a few years after the previous one; nor is it a mystery. Flashing back to 1939, Gone Fishin' concerns events from Easy and Mouse's youth, events previously alluded to but never told in detail. Easy accompanies Mouse on a trip from Houston to Pariah, Texas, where Mouse was born; there Easy faces up not just to who his friend really is, but to what he himself may become. Easy before L.A. and before the war is directionless and ambitionless, but also seems to fundamentally lack a will of his own. For such a life-changing book--Easy's life, that is--this is a very quiet novel, almost meditative. Considering that Easy spends a large portion of the book in a fevered state, perhaps that's not surprising. Overall, a nice change of pace for the series, and a particularly fitting follow-up for the events in A Little Yellow Dog.