Aicha Amano

In my quest to 'broaden my literary horizon' I made a point to go out of this  terrible 'complaisant zone' I am currently  at. To be honest, my reading state is probably a lot bleaker that what I'm letting on: I have not finished a novel since three months ago! As penitensya for my incessant lack of drive and, I suppose, to jolt my brain back to the pace it used to enjoy prior to this reading drought, I decided that I must go the route of reading 'Difficult Books'. "A difficult book is still just a book",  I told myself; how silly to get hung up on what other people say about how much of a PitA   it is to slough through. I pride myself on reading basically everything I get my hands on. Because when all your life you've felt that reading a book was the warmest , most comfortable state to just be , it feels as natural as a breeze turning a page. So I grabbed a copy of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury . I am lucky enough to be at

A really sweet, easy read. Best enjoyed with a glass of iced honey tea. I've always had a place in my heart for characters that sound like they're from the "polite" southern parts. In my head I always hear their endearing drawl, and I'm always reminded of their prim and proper ways. The heroine of The Wedding Bees is just that: Proper, polite and charming to a fault. But she's no pampered southern belle. Sugar Wallace is a beekeeper and a whiz at honey-making. She earns her keep, traveling across the country with her honeybee queen, Elizabeth VI, and all the bee drones, in tow. Her bees led her to set up her beehive on the balcony of an apartment in New York, where despite the stark difference to the southern states from which she hails, she gets to meet and help the residents of the building. Her southern manners and charm provides a refreshing change in the gray lives of her neighbors. Sugar has resolutely tried to stay out of the path