Kevin's Watch

Onto Enemy of God, 2nd in the WarLord Chronicles.

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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

Excalibur, final book in Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles, which I've ended up enjoying despite a slow start. A believable take on the Arthurian legends, even though he admits he's allowed some anachronisms to remain.

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking. Just started it today.

The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi.

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aliantha wrote:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking. Just started it today.

Snap! I met a friend for coffee today and he was talking about this book. I wonder if I'm meant to read it While I have lots of introvert characteristics I'm not sure that I'm really one. Might be time to start a thread about it! (I found a thread on personality types and did the test and posted there instead )

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A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan.

And while we're playing snap, Av I found a new hardcover of Something To Tell You for $2 in a discount store the other day. Obviously I bought it. And yes yes, that's not snap snap but it is same author snap, so I'm paying it.

Orlion wrote:The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

Whew, that was rough. Good, but rough. Enjoyed it more than As I lay Dying. I think the Compson family history at the end was completely unnecessary, out of character for the tone of the book, and just does not really add anything to it. It was written sixteen years after the fact, but still...

Shaun das Schaf wrote:And while we're playing snap, Av I found a new hardcover of Something To Tell You for $2 in a discount store the other day. Obviously I bought it. And yes yes, that's not snap snap but it is same author snap, so I'm paying it.

Actually...guess what I'm reading right now? Something To Tell You by, obviously, Hanif Kureishi. It's better than the other one I think.

In fact, the GF read it and enjoyed it, and that made her want to get and read Buddha, which she did. When I reached the end of my massive TBR pile and cast around for more books, I decided to read them "in order" as it were.

So snap.

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Missed this post. Yep, that's some serious snapping. It would be even more snaptastic if I was reading it instead of just having bought it

Right now however, I'm reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, which I've been wanting to read for a while. Have heard great things about it.

While I'm here, Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad was a thoroughly enjoyable read.Anyone else read any of her work? I have a collection of short stories here but none of her other novels.

I finished Life of Pi today. I really wasn't expecting that ending. It took something that was already good and made it, I don't know, perhaps more meaningful.

Parting the Waters. I have to say, I am not very far in, but it's a really interesting read, and many of the characters aside from the King are fairly engaging to imagine.

Sic, Joshua Cody.

Avatar wrote:The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi.

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Just read his short story "My son the fanatic" with my 12 graders. An interesting read, especially since at least 50% of students in this course are muslims.

Just finishing Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, by Maria Semple. Good book. I imagine someone who's been to or lives in Seattle would get even more out of it but I've really enjoyed it. Different, and a largely unpredictable unraveling of story, which is always appreciated!

Don't Vote, It Just Encourages The Bastards by PJ O'Rourke.

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Read Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin over the weekend. It's the latest Rebus novel. Not sure what it adds to the whole thing. I am very familiar with Rebus and lots of stuff in the novel just didn't ring true for me: too much emphasis on smoking and drinking, too much of Cafferty, too little real plot, all too tidy at the end. It felt like a very tired wringing out of the last couple of drops.

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aliantha wrote:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking. Just started it today.

Snap! I met a friend for coffee today and he was talking about this book. I wonder if I'm meant to read it While I have lots of introvert characteristics I'm not sure that I'm really one. Might be time to start a thread about it! (I found a thread on personality types and did the test and posted there instead )

u.

Just saw this. I set the book aside to read some other stuff for the upcoming novel -- mythology, mostly -- and have yet to get back to it. When I finish it, I'll start that thread, and then you'll *have* to read it!

Speaking of setting books aside, I was partway into Daughters of the Dreaming by Diane Bell when I realized it's not really giving me the info I need for my book, and picked up The Channel War instead. Which also won't give me any info I need for the book, but it's more fun.

I've started The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.

Giving up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel's memoir.