Pigeon English Book Review

One of my non-resolution goals for 2012 is to read twelve books this year. I love to read, but reading has taken a back seat to other activities lately, be it blogging, chatting on Facebook and Twitter, or just falling asleep watching television.

I finished my first book of 2012 with a few days left in January:

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman:

I hadn’t heard about this book, but my sister-in-law gave it to me for my birthday because it has gotten good reviews (and the 2011 Man Booker Prize). It’s different from most novels that I choose for myself, but I thought it was very good.

The narrator is an eleven year old boy who recently immigrated to London from Ghana, and lives a rough-and-tumble life in an inner-city housing complex. His observations and insights made me stop and think–and appreciate the little things in my own world in a new light.

The best thing about finishing a good novel is that it leaves me anxious to start another one!