Miss J has pleaded with Booklub members other than herself to post on their reading.... here goes, but I suspect my reading will be of limited interest to others at present:
"Baby Love" by Robin Barker
"Kidwrangling" by Kaz Cooke
"The Essential Guide for First-time Parents" by Dr Miriam Stoppard
You get the idea. Falling asleep on the couch by 9pm really puts a damper on your reading schedule. However, now that I am on maternity leave (whoohoo!), perhaps I'll have the time to read the following which I have lined up:
Virtual Light, by William Gibson
Mr Golightly's Holiday by Sally Vickers
and a few others that I started over the past few months...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Haruki Murukami - The Wind up Bird
So I've got a100 pages into this, right. And I know that Mr Murukami has a bit of a fan base out there in Booklub, but just to put the cat among the wind-up birds... I wonder if I find him cold, aloof, and just trying a little bit too, er, hard. Maybe. I'm enoying it because its all mysterious and has some very casual humour with the prophesy angle.. but is he overtly trying to create a spooky (but meaningless) atmosphere just for the sake of it? I read another one of his, completely forget the title because I'm a fairly crap book reviewer, but it was about a man with a long lost love, who owns a jazz club and feels a kind of duty to his wife not to track down his myterious lost love. This one seems to be about a jobless man who listens to jazz all day and is starting to worry he doesn't really know his wife that well at. Interesting, but cold. I sense perhaps he a is a little subversive with the attitude of his protagaonist, if we are to believe the stereotype of Japan, and the highly dutiful salaryman. So the way his men characters kind of glide through life might be a bit of a shock over there. Just guessing here. Maybe I've known one too many dissolute men for real, and don't get much of a kick out of fiction ones. Who knows. In the last two weeks I stayed up till the wee hours reading first Animal Moves by Barbara Kingsolver and then The Robber Brides -totally cliched chick books, and loved them both. Even shed a little tear at the first one. Will give you more run down next time.
So I've got a100 pages into this, right. And I know that Mr Murukami has a bit of a fan base out there in Booklub, but just to put the cat among the wind-up birds... I wonder if I find him cold, aloof, and just trying a little bit too, er, hard. Maybe. I'm enoying it because its all mysterious and has some very casual humour with the prophesy angle.. but is he overtly trying to create a spooky (but meaningless) atmosphere just for the sake of it? I read another one of his, completely forget the title because I'm a fairly crap book reviewer, but it was about a man with a long lost love, who owns a jazz club and feels a kind of duty to his wife not to track down his myterious lost love. This one seems to be about a jobless man who listens to jazz all day and is starting to worry he doesn't really know his wife that well at. Interesting, but cold. I sense perhaps he a is a little subversive with the attitude of his protagaonist, if we are to believe the stereotype of Japan, and the highly dutiful salaryman. So the way his men characters kind of glide through life might be a bit of a shock over there. Just guessing here. Maybe I've known one too many dissolute men for real, and don't get much of a kick out of fiction ones. Who knows. In the last two weeks I stayed up till the wee hours reading first Animal Moves by Barbara Kingsolver and then The Robber Brides -totally cliched chick books, and loved them both. Even shed a little tear at the first one. Will give you more run down next time.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Just finished reading this one. Thanks Mikey for perfect airoplane reading.
Liked it. Anyone else read it?
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