the things they carried

I started this new novel called the things they carried which is about this one mans story about how he felt about the Vietnam war. In the begining chapters he begins to discuss how he wanted to jump the boarder to Canada to avoid being drafted but he was drafted anyways. But what sticks in my mind is the fact that he had a girlfriend in the states but he could not connect with her because they were living in two different worlds. With soldiers coming home from the Iraq was do you think they feel excluded from our society? Why or why not?

dec 12

Over the last few years I have been reading the Jodi Picolt series of books which tend to be really good. I have been talking to other people that have read her books and I am trying to figure out if all her books are the same and are getting repetitive. What's your opinion?

a lesson before dying 1

Something that I want to discuss about this book is can you really turn a man that has been looked at on as a pig and thats how the whole town views this black man in the Jim Crow south. Is there really a point to this and how will Jefferson benefit from this.