Reading Wednesday - Burying the Typewriter

Just finished Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan.

This is a memoir about her childhood in Romania, and also about life under the dictatorship. Her father was a political dissident. As the book goes on, sweet childhood memories give way to the family experiencing years of interrogation and surveillance.

The author has a way with words. There's something about her writing, the way she describes things, the imagery... I don't know. I found this book difficult to put down.

Actually - one of the author's poems was included in the book; "Visiting the Country of My Birth". And I liked that very much too - the same way with words was there. So after finishing the book, I ended up ordering her poetry collection, Crossing the Carpathians. And I'm really looking forward to reading it.

Anyway. I don't really know how to be objective about a book like this, the kind of thing where it's someone writing about their own life. But I did find it very worth the time to read it.