2013 Book #49: Dance Dance Dance
Well, that went quickly. Four books in, what, two weeks? Lots of Haruki Murakami. Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball, 1973, and A Wild Sheep Chase were his first three novels. Then, he wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Norwegian Wood before returning to his first series-of-sorts with the novel I just read, Dance Dance Dance. Keep in […]
2013 Book #48: A Wild Sheep Chase
Three down, one to go. That’s about how I’m feeling now: I’m Murakamied out. But I was right: I liked A Wild Sheep Chase a lot more this time around, though I don’t think it’s for the same reason. Though Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are about the same characters, you don’t need to have read […]
2013 Book #47: Pinball, 1973
Whew! Another book flew by. At this point, the posts you’re seeing are postdated, as I’m reading a bit to fast. I might have hit fifty before November at this rate. Anyway. On to Pinball, 1973, the second of the Rat series, whether you want to argue that it’s a trilogy or a tetralogy. I’ll wait […]
2013 Book #46: Hear the Wind Sing
The end of the year is right around the corner, and, thankfully, so is my annual book quota. Four more to go. I have a feeling I’ll make it, especially with the little project I have planned. A couple posts ago, I said I’d like to be reading It but that I won’t let myself because […]
2013 Book #45: Damned
Damned isn’t my first brush with Palahniuk: I tried to read Haunted a few years ago, and I read Lullaby and blogged about it in 2011. He’s most famous for Fight Club, but that’s Not My Kind of Thing. I’ve seen snippets of the movie. I didn’t remember much about Lullaby, except that I generally liked it, but on […]
2013 Book #44: A Feast for Crows
I know I’ve said before that I’m entirely addicted to A Song of Ice and Fire. I really can’t help myself. I love these books. Reading so many long books, though, is getting me into crunch time if I’m going to make fifty by the end of the year. Which means I’m going to force myself […]
2013 Book #42: Facing the Music
Larry Brown has been on my radar for a few months, thanks to my friend Jacob, who clued me into a Youtube preview of a documentary about him. I was intrigued: Here’s this guy from the sticks of Mississippi, a firefighter, who sits down one day and decides to become a writer. He claims a […]
2013 Book #43: MaddAddam
I’m getting behind again. I really need to make a habit of writing about a book right after I finish reading it, which is what I’m doing now. Before I write something about Larry Brown’s collection of short stories, which I read first. But that’s neither here nor there. MaddAddam is the final book in […]
2013 Book #41: Anna Karenina
I don’t even really want to talk about this one. I read it; isn’t that enough? I know that Anna Karenina is considered one of the best novels ever written and that I should like it, but I just didn’t. I got bored really quickly, and it’s just too damn long. And it’s false advertising, which makes me angry, […]
2013 Book #40: Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe? How’d that end up on my reading list, you ask? Two reasons: a Book Riot article about Game of Thrones and Ivanhoe put it on my radar in the first place, then seeing Sir Walter Scott mentioned in so many other books (none of which I can think of, of course) finally did me in. Evidently, back […]