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Book log - playing catch-up
May. 27th, 2006 01:17 pmRead recently and slightly less recently:
Intoxicated by John Barlow - very fun and colorful
The Murder Room by P.D. James - growing up, James was squarely in the category of "writers my mother likes that I can't really get into", but this one was very good so I'll probably read a few more
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson - interesting stories about the Chicago Worlds Fair and a serial killer who was active in Chicago at the time. Unfortunately, the story of the serial killer was oversensationalized. If you don't know exactly what happened, you can either make something up or call it a history book but not both. To be fair, he did indicate exactly what he'd made up in the footnotes.
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian - quick, but regrettable read. Whatever he was trying to do, I really thought it didn't work. All the characters' voices blended together and the trans character wasn't very believable.
The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret - short stories, translated from Hebrew. I read the whole thing on my flight to San Francisco. I don't usually like short stories that are this short, but these were excellent, quirky stories and some of them were really funny.
I'm currently most of the way through Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It's really good, I'm not sure why it took me five years to get around to reading it.
Intoxicated by John Barlow - very fun and colorful
The Murder Room by P.D. James - growing up, James was squarely in the category of "writers my mother likes that I can't really get into", but this one was very good so I'll probably read a few more
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson - interesting stories about the Chicago Worlds Fair and a serial killer who was active in Chicago at the time. Unfortunately, the story of the serial killer was oversensationalized. If you don't know exactly what happened, you can either make something up or call it a history book but not both. To be fair, he did indicate exactly what he'd made up in the footnotes.
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian - quick, but regrettable read. Whatever he was trying to do, I really thought it didn't work. All the characters' voices blended together and the trans character wasn't very believable.
The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret - short stories, translated from Hebrew. I read the whole thing on my flight to San Francisco. I don't usually like short stories that are this short, but these were excellent, quirky stories and some of them were really funny.
I'm currently most of the way through Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It's really good, I'm not sure why it took me five years to get around to reading it.
