I know, this book is so 5 years ago…ok, more like 8 years ago, but I’m only getting around to reading it now. Kafka on the Shore is only my second Murakami book, 1Q84 being the first. I’m thinking I probably should have read this before 1Q84. Then again, if I read this first and … Continue reading »
Mo Yan was the Nobel Laureate for Literature in 2012, beating a host of literary giants including Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, just to name a few. Mo Yan, which means “don’t speak,” is the pen name of Chinese writer, Guan Moye, born in the ‘mid 50′s in Gaomi Province, … Continue reading »
Books I bought in January – some brand new, some second-hand: 1. The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach) – I have an idea that this is a book about sports, baseball in particular, so I never really paid much attention to it. However, I’ve heard a lot of good things about it, so there must … Continue reading »
What better way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice than by posting my review of P.D. James’ 2011 novel, Death Comes to Pemberley. People can’t resist reading, not to mention, writing, about Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy and what their life together might have been like after the events in Jane Austen’s Pride … Continue reading »
If there’s one thing book bloggers have in common, it’s that they love making book lists – ‘bought books’ lists, ‘to-read’ lists, ‘books read’ list, ‘top-books’ list – and of course, it being the end of the year, it’s time to make some sense of all those lists complied throughout the year. Of course, I’m … Continue reading »
After two weeks, I finally finished the first part of Haruki Murakami’s 3-inch-thick novel, 1Q84. 1Q84 is divided into three parts – from April-June (Part 1), to July-September (Part 2), and finally October-December (Part 3) – of 1984. Having just recently finished the first part – April-June, I felt that I should post something … Continue reading »
It took me a few days to get over the feeling left by David Mitchell‘s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Usually, after finishing a book, I’d jump right in to the next one, but I couldn’t quite shake off Jacob de Zoet. Even now, when I think back on it, I get a strange … Continue reading »
Last week, I started reading Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children with a “reading buddy” I “met” online. I “discovered” my reading buddy, Angus, on wordpress, through his blog Book Rhapsody, but started the Reading Buddy activity in another forum. For reasons unknown to me, he had chosen to read Midnight’s Children to end the year, and since I’ve always wanted to read … Continue reading »
A new list for the new year, though most of the books on here were from last year’s “to read” list. This is just a rough guide of all the books I want to read before the year ends, and is not set in stone. I will most likely add or remove books throughout the … Continue reading »
Sarah Reads Too Much has recently announced that she will once again be hosting the Back to the Classics Reading Challenge in 2012. Like this year’s, the challenge is designed to get readers to read more of the Classics. The different categories in the reading challenge will also give readers the opportunity to choose … Continue reading »
