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I have finally finished Zorba the Greek! I paused it to start listening to Frankenstein in Baghdad and in turn paused that to start listening to Eva Luna. I've had more listening and travelling time lately to start catching up on multiple audio so Zorba was hot on my list. I really liked the book. It was an interesting mixture of high-minded ethereal philosophy and a more hedonistic approach and the question of which is really better, set mostly on a lovely Cretan beach. I do question some of the chauvinistic and homophobic elements of the book - even for its time, there are very strong opinions contained here - but in the end I look past that because I enjoyed the other aspects of the book so much.
This leaves me listening to the two Lit Club books. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi is a sort of retelling of Frankenstein, or perhaps a story inspired by Frankenstein, set in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein and with violence all around. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is about an orphan girl growing up mid-20th century in a South American country during various governmental upheavals, and the girl has a gift for storytelling and a very active imagination and the book also concerns all the various eccentric characters that come into her life.
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