Tuesday, April 21, 2026
I finished reading The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones and since the ending wasn't satisfying for me, I couldn't say this book left much of an impression in me. The book tells the story of a Black American World War II veteran who saw a unicorn woman in a carnival and got very curious about her and so was I. I was with him completely in his attempt to find out more about this woman. Alas the book is not about giving us definitive answer and there's no conclusion in regard to this woman. Though perhaps the whole point is really that; how in life there are some things we will never get to know and we just have to live with it. Anyways, what I find rather interesting about this book is how I feel like this guy is a man of a few words even though in the book we find a whole lot of deal about him. It just seems to me in his conversations with other people, the other people seem to have a lot of things to say and our main character is more of a listener. It's interesting because of all the books I've read (admittedly not a lot), this is the first time I felt this.
Well, I can only write a paragraph about this book. Nothing much else to say. I have some books in the queue for now, but what I'm really interested to read is Project Hail Mary which is not currently in my queue :( I really like the movie and it is rather strange, a reverse usually never happens like wanting to read a book after watching the movie or TV series, but I feel like I really want to read Project Hail Mary. The author is the same one who wrote The Martian and I thought the book was better than the movie which is not the movie fault completely because there's only so much you can put in a movie. Anyways, yeah I guess at some point I will be getting Project Hail Mary the book.
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