Flight: A Novel
Registered by princess-peapod of San Luis Obispo, California USA on 8/13/2009
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by princess-peapod from San Luis Obispo, California USA on Thursday, August 13, 2009
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picked up as this is part of the SLO reads program...
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." --Virginia Woolf
All over the world people are following the journey of their books through BookCrossing, by making an entry YOU will be helping keep this book's unique history up-to-date. Our greatest joy at BookCrossing is knowing that someone has found & is enjoying one of our books! You can remain anonymous, but if you choose to join please list me, princess-peapod, as your referring member. There are no strings attached, I just want to share the love of reading!
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
picked up as this is part of the SLO reads program...
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." --Virginia Woolf
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
If you found this book while in the area of San Luis Obispo, CA. feel free to come by and check out Joe Mommas which houses our bookshelf! We also hold our local meetups on the first Tuesday of each month at 5pm there, please come join the fun! The books on the shelf are free to for you to read, enjoy and pass along to another!
part of the one word release challenge as hosted by 300dogs
this book is part of the Preface The Cal Poly Shared Reading Program for Fall 2009! I read and enjoyed this book and now am taking it back to Nan's books as I know there is another person who is waiting to read it!
The book selection of PREFACE 2009 is Flight by Sherman Alexie.
Flight is an engaging story of one young man’s modern-day vision quest. The storyrevolves around “Zits,” a Native American teenager who has been juggled from foster home to foster home with little chance to develop a sense of his own identity. Having been in trouble with the law for most of his adolescent life and about to make another irreparable mistake, he is thrown back through time. He lands first in the civil rights era of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s in the body of an FBI agent forced to witness an unimaginable crime. He continues his journey to violent moments throughout American history as the young son of an Indian chief during the battle of Little Bighorn, a Calvary Indian tracker in the late 19th century, and a middle-aged flight instructor flying the skies above present-day Chicago. With each leap through time, Zits becomes more aware of Native American history and his own identity.
This is an interesting read though it was not exactly what I had expected...
"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control."
Paul Auster
If you found this book while in the area of San Luis Obispo, CA. feel free to come by and check out Joe Mommas which houses our bookshelf! We also hold our local meetups on the first Tuesday of each month at 5pm there, please come join the fun! The books on the shelf are free to for you to read, enjoy and pass along to another!
part of the one word release challenge as hosted by 300dogs
this book is part of the Preface The Cal Poly Shared Reading Program for Fall 2009! I read and enjoyed this book and now am taking it back to Nan's books as I know there is another person who is waiting to read it!
The book selection of PREFACE 2009 is Flight by Sherman Alexie.
Flight is an engaging story of one young man’s modern-day vision quest. The storyrevolves around “Zits,” a Native American teenager who has been juggled from foster home to foster home with little chance to develop a sense of his own identity. Having been in trouble with the law for most of his adolescent life and about to make another irreparable mistake, he is thrown back through time. He lands first in the civil rights era of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s in the body of an FBI agent forced to witness an unimaginable crime. He continues his journey to violent moments throughout American history as the young son of an Indian chief during the battle of Little Bighorn, a Calvary Indian tracker in the late 19th century, and a middle-aged flight instructor flying the skies above present-day Chicago. With each leap through time, Zits becomes more aware of Native American history and his own identity.
This is an interesting read though it was not exactly what I had expected...
"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control."
Paul Auster
