First Impressions

          The first thing that I noticed and liked about the book is that it starts of with one of the characters named Ashima giving birth. I really like how the "Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri starts of like this because it really got me interested in what was coming next, apposed to in "Notes from the Underground" where when I started it I kinda wanted to put it back down. Although I really like how the book started as I kept reading i noticed that the writer went into a lot of detail about almost everything, which just made everything kind of seem longer than it needed to be. A little example of this is when Lahiri is writing about Ashoke's glasses and says, "He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread." (Lahiri, 11) I understand that creative writing is a great thing but this just seems to me like a little to much information about one thing. Overall I am very intrigued about where this book is going and I think I am going to like it!