Title: Beasts of No Nation
Author: Uzodinma Iweala
Genre: Fiction
This was a very short, very direct story about a child soldier in an unnamed West African nation. It was very disturbing. I’m not saying it wasn’t good, but just, I didn’t enjoy reading it. With a book like this perhaps the best compliment you can give is that it’s disturbing and you didn’t enjoy reading it.
With this short book, that I read in it’s entirety today on New Year’s Eve, my 2006 reading comes to a close. I’m very disappointed that I only managed to read 21 books this year. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions but it is a soft goal to read at least 40 books in 2007. With the 6 or 7 wonderful sounding books I received as holiday gifts I’m well on my way to getting started on that goal. Happy reading to everyone in 2007.