My colleague pulled me into a book club with some other ladies recently. This is the first book club I have been a part of and so far, its a good thing. I have tons of books sitting onmy shelves, collecting dust, so I'm hoping this will prompt me to clean these off and open their pages.
Our first book is 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera.
story:
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayalsâ€"while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being."
Im nearly finished this book and Im not quite a fan of how miserable these characters are. What I do like about this book, is that not everything is black and white and things are complicated. I just hope that our next book is more happy. It'll be interesting what the other ladies think of this.
B.
