Light in August

Over the past years I have not read as many books as I would have like to. I've read some books outside of class, but the stack of books I want to read grows larger. Fortunately, after reading Light in August this year, I have a new found motivation to tackle that stack. For me, Light in August reopened my eyes to literature as an art form not just something I have to do for a class. I've been given a new appreciation for the subtleties and complexities of literature. Upon first read, the passage at the novels onset where Lena waits for the wagon to come down the road struck me is over descriptive and worried me that I would have another Great Expectation like book. A book where more words just seem to written. In reality, the lengthy two page depiction of this scene help place you in Lena's shoes. It made you wait like she was waiting. I found this very cool. The rest of the novel was awesome as well, but that first scene really did it for me.

Comments

[Koko]

Yeah, I liked that book as well.

[Meghan White]

That was a good book. It made the reader think a lot about family and happiness in life. At first, I thought the book was going to be very difficult to read and hard to understand. After reading the first couple of chapters in the novel, I started enjoying reading it.

[Amy P.]

Light i August was well written and everything just seemed to flow together. I enjoyed reading the book as well. It was easier to read then I had thought. I liked all of the motifs that you could see in the book.