Posted in Audiobooks on Oct 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Stieg Larsson
I haven’t posted in a bit, but I’ve been reading a lot. I just finished both of these books and really, really enjoyed them. I realized after I read The Girl who Played with Fire that it was kind of the sequel to Dragon Tattoo. I would recommend reading them […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jul 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
Kathryn Stockett
I’ve been severely delinquent on posting updates about what I’m reading and watching these days. I probably have a backlog of about six or seven books that I’ve read and haven’t written about, and I doubt I’ll actually end up posting about all of them. I did want to post about this book, though, […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Apr 16th, 2009 No Comments »
David Rakoff
I didn’t find Fraud as funny as Don’t Get Too Comfortable. Maybe part of the problem was that I missed some of Rakoff’s obscure references and jokes. Rakoff is very self-deprecating, which can sometimes be funny, but his writing style is so complex that I found it hard to follow, especially on audiobook.
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Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Haruki Murakami
This was a wonderful and sad love story… but what I’ve come to love about Murakami’s writing is the environment you feel when reading his books. Granted, I’ve only read A Wild Sheep Chase (and I just started The Wind-Up Bird Chronical), but in all of his novels, I feel that I can immerse […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Haruki Murakami
Part mystery and part fantasy, this Japanese novel was a good read. The narrator, who never gives his name, is thrown into a strange quest of finding a mystical sheep. He has one month to find this unique sheep and what follows is a detective story that is both engrossing and weirdly believable at […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Aug 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Ann Patchett
One of Patchett’s greatest strengths as a writer are the characters she develops. In a way, she reminds me of Anne Tyler. This book begins with two of the main characters Parsifal, the magician, and his lover, Phan, dead. Phan passes away first, and shortly after his death, Parsifal, though gay, marries Sabine, […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jul 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Jane Green
Another fun, light read. I enjoyed this one more than “Can You Keep a Secret?”. This one had a bit more depth and reminded me of “The Big Chill” in the sense that it’s about college friends being reunited and they each have their own problems.
tags:chick lit, fiction, jane green, UK
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Gary Marcus
Kluge puts forward the theory that our brain is not a brilliantly constructed mechanism made by an intelligent designer, rather it’s the result of thousands of years of evolutionary adaptations. In other words, we’ve developed a patch-work, duct-taped brain that doesn’t always function in the most rational, optimal way. Marcus writes in an easily […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Tana French
I think this murder mystery/psychological thriller had the potential to very good. It was an easy “read” and I found myself looking forward to listening to the book. But as the end neared and the real culprit to one of the major mysteries was caught, I was disappointed. There was one other major plot […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jun 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Ken Follett
This long, epic novel was a great read. The premise behind the 976-page book is the building of a cathedral in 12-century England. The entire novel spans over 50 years, and begins with a small family finding their way to the town of Kingsbridge, where a new cathedral is to be built. […]