What My Roommate is Reading Right Now

Name: Amanda
Age: 21
Where are you from? My mother
Occupation: student and intern extraordinaire

Currently reading? The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman

Why this book? My mother gave it to me for Easter because I love Alice Hoffman books.

Thoughts on the book: It’s kind of disappointing so far because it’s not as poetically written as a lot of my favorite Alice Hoffman books. I think it’s going to get interesting, but so far she’s been describing a lonely woman, and that gets old after twenty pages. I think it’s weird in an Alice Hoffman novel to have a lonely individual woman, because normally [Hoffman] either takes a great family or couple and f-s it up, or takes a funky couple or family and shows the beauty behind the funky...kinda.

Other book recommendations: Not Virgil’s Georgics. Especially the first 42 lines. [Ed: She just had to memorize them for class. Seriously.] But, on a positive note, [I recommend] the Reader [by Bernhard Schlink], and they’re making it into a movie.