I just finished Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections as I’ve resolved to read more frequently and more broadly and that book appeared on the recent 100 Best Books of the 21st Century from The New York Times and it was already in my house.
The book was a very nice dose of perspective, and that it was written at a time that still seems so modern but since which so much has changed (at least superficially) was very interesting.
I drew some inspiration from the book for a song I’m working through about identity.
The book was well-written, though I would say that the author’s sensibilities seemed to encroach a bit on some of the characters’s internal monologues such that they leaned a bit towards a literary and self-aware homogeneity, but that was ultimately a fairly minor and potentially imagined undertone (and the characters were still engaging).