Update on My Reading: Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises)

I've already broken several promises in this blog and here's another addition: I haven't been reading Dutch papers lately and I opened another book again. It was lent to me by a friend, along with several other titles. This one caught my attention first because of two things 1. Spain 2. the lady protagonist

I'm halfway through the book now and I am liking the flow of the story. It's true what they say about Ernest Hemingway. He uses direct conversations, simple words and unsentimental phrases. His description are vivid yet devoid of any superlatives. But the book is very nice.

The plot is what drew me to the book. It was set in Paris during the '20s where artists and writers from America tried their craft there. But the book tells the story of a man, his friends and his society circle where he moves and the men who are inlove with the woman he loves as well, Brett.

I know Brett. I've been in her shoes and I have been hiding from her for a long time. She loves life, carefree beyond reason, loves drinking, fickle but passionate. She swore love to one man and live with another, and still go out with some. She love flattery, the good comfortable life, her title and her obvious mystique to men.

I tried to forget Brett but will I?

This book made me remember....everything that I want to bury in memories. It's scary to come face to face with them again but they were my tears, happiness, passion and my failures.

I'm feeling nostalgic. I never knew it will feel this good.