Reservation Blues

For a project in La class I have to read a book. It might sound a little nerdy, but I'm actually kind of glad that I have to. i jut to read a lot and even considered posting about books in the beginning. but then since Christmas or something I really didn't read anymore at all. So coming to my point: I am reading Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. It starts out with Robert Johnson (a famous blues musician) walking with his guitar on an indian reservation. This made me read the book. Something starting out with Robert Johnson and supposedly talking about blues music and Indian (American-Indians) can not be that bad.

And it's not. I really dig it actually and strongly recommend the book. My teacher ranked middle hard to read but I think it's not hard to read at all, just challenging enough to not be boring.

The book is more about an Indian band first covering songs (I would say it plays in the 90’s) but later writing their own little blues and/or rock pieces. It is not like every normal book about some rock band getting famous, it’s much more than that since Sherman Alexie puts this Indian lifestyle, their problems and their view of the world in it.
This made me laugh a couple of times. I am not a professional about Indians but just some descriptions are just so hilarious!

So definitely a book you should read! Just 300 pages which makes it an easy book to read in between. This is the link to the official Sherman Alexie web http://www.fallsapart.com/resblues.html