(Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places)
Stilgoe, John
Amazon link
Recommended by Eric
Finished 1 June 2008
So good. I can't wait to loan this out to everyone in my life who is intelligent and curious. Hopefully that's pretty much everyone.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Eat, Pray, Love
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Amazon link
Borrowed from Shetha
Finished 17 May
I wanted to dislike this book and its author, but it kept a humble, deprecating tone and led through enough real-life, low-level twists that I couldn't stop reading.
Amazon link
Borrowed from Shetha
Finished 17 May
I wanted to dislike this book and its author, but it kept a humble, deprecating tone and led through enough real-life, low-level twists that I couldn't stop reading.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The
Murakami, Haruki
Amazon link
Finished 27 April 2008
The dream quality and blurred boundaries are well done, but this wasn't at all what I thought it would be-- such an odd subject matter, and while I can handle that no questions are ever answered, there seem to be many threads that are merely dropped. Parts of it I read quite eagerly, and parts were painfully visceral, so overall I guess I enjoyed the read.
Amazon link
Finished 27 April 2008
The dream quality and blurred boundaries are well done, but this wasn't at all what I thought it would be-- such an odd subject matter, and while I can handle that no questions are ever answered, there seem to be many threads that are merely dropped. Parts of it I read quite eagerly, and parts were painfully visceral, so overall I guess I enjoyed the read.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Lost Japan
Kerr, Alex
Amazon link
So far this is written in the style in which the simple, direct wording seems to disappear-- a style that is deceptively invisible and makes for a lovely quick read.
Finished 30 May 2008. Okay, that didn't turn out to be quick. I wish I had finished it before I went to Japan, but I also appreciated and understood it more, having been. I can't wait to loan this to people.
Amazon link
So far this is written in the style in which the simple, direct wording seems to disappear-- a style that is deceptively invisible and makes for a lovely quick read.
Finished 30 May 2008. Okay, that didn't turn out to be quick. I wish I had finished it before I went to Japan, but I also appreciated and understood it more, having been. I can't wait to loan this to people.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Crossing, the
McCarthy, Cormac
I saw a Cormac McCarthy book somewhere years ago for $2, so I bought it. I'm reading it now to put off non-fiction.
Finished around 14 March 2008
I saw a Cormac McCarthy book somewhere years ago for $2, so I bought it. I'm reading it now to put off non-fiction.
Finished around 14 March 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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