Every summer, I choose one big book from my "to read" list, one so long it's hard to find time to read during the school year. This year, it's Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook. What's on your list?About this novel:
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Much to its author's chagrin, The Golden Notebook instantly became a staple of the feminist movement when it was published in 1962.
