Black Like Me

7/1/2012

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was a pretty great read. At first I found it difficult to believe that people weren't simply humoring him, but after looking at some pictures, I can see he was actually pretty convincing, especially while wearing dark sunglasses.

The book is a fairly straightforward and eloquent narrative, and I found myself engrossed most of the time. I really enjoyed reading about the fallout from the book after it was published as well. All in all, worth the read, no matter who you are.

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L.S. Burton

Farewell, third person bio.

Lee Burton doesn't have cats or kids, but he does have a lot of books, a couple of mugs he thinks are really fantastic, and a good pair of shoes which haven't fallen apart yet despite his best efforts to murder them with kilometers.

Burton has written almost six books. Almost six as some are still scantily clad in their respective drawers. Each of them had their own goals and were written differently, and he is very fond of them all -- except perhaps for his first attempt at a novel, which remains a travesty. That one he keeps locked in a dark basement and feeds it fish heads.

In 2011, Burton won the Percy Janes Award for Best Unpublished First Novel in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition for his novel Raw Flesh in the Rising.

And just recently, in the fall of 2013, Burton published his first science-fiction novel, THIS LAND, about which he boasts constantly.