Uncharted territory

For if it's the first, it should be the best first and it was.....Recently a work colleague prompted me to read Frank McCourt’s biography “Angela’s Ashes”.  I was so reluctant; in all these years I have read, I have never opened a single biography. I have heard about so many but fiction has always been my comfort zone and go to whenever wherever.

I have been pushing myself to try out new things, so trying out a different genre of a book wasn’t a bad idea. With much hesitation I got it, flipped through the pages, good thing its sizeable, just 425 pages, big enough letters and I told myself, this would be a piece of cake.

So may be that wasn’t the case from the onset, first I was thrown off by the style of narration 1^st person, have no problem with it except that I haven’t read many books like this, or a biography for that matter, so I had to first adjust my head space to get into it.

When that was over with and I got the hook of the story I was in awe. Frank McCourt doesn’t leave any stones unturned, the humour with which he tells the story of living in absolute poverty in Limerick in Ireland, you cannot help but laugh. I find it ironic because this is supposed to be a sad tale but then it’s only a good writer who can manage to make one find a laugh in even the saddest situations. No wonder it was an international best seller.. As I wind down Angela’s Ashes, I am on the lookout for another great biography. I am now on a roll. And ohh McCourt has set the bar so high with me so I want something equally good or even better. Any recommendations?????