I try not to have many
rituals as far as my reading goes, but I still do, like alternating my book
reading between authors I have read before and new authors I have not, and
picking out one short story collection to read once a month. Another one I do
regarding specific authors is reading one Michael Chabon book and one Jonathan
Lethem book a year. So far, I have only read three books by these two authors that
I thought were any good, those being Wonderboys by Chabon and Motherless
Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude by Lethem, and all of them I consider to
be some of my favorite books. I have yet to recapture that magic of those
three, and the Lethem book I read this year, Girl in Landscape, is sadly not
any different. It is not as bad as Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, but I
was not very into this one, which I bought simply because it was the only book
of his not in the library system here. I gave a chance despite its goofy
premise of a girl leaving her mother to go to a different planet where an alien
hermaphroditic life forms where plants control the climate, but it was just too
much for me. I have said before that I cannot really get into science fiction,
despite my favorite English class of all time was on the subject. It is just
hard for me completely immerse myself in a world that is not like my own in
anyway. I am not against escapism, and find the breadth of imagination in some
of these works to be staggering, it is just not written for me. If you like
that, you may have a blast with this novel, but I’m the farthest thing from an
expert when it comes to science fiction.
Rating: 3/5
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