I started 2012 by joining three reading challenges: the Back to the Classics Reading Challenge, the Graphic Novel Reading Challenge, and the Chunkster Reading Challenge. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to read any books for the Back to the Classics Reading Challenge. I thought I’d be able to read some classics this year, but I got…
Some newly acquired books (brand new and second-hand): 1. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula Le Guin To be perfectly honest, Ursula Le Guin only got my attention when I learned recently that she is the daughter of American cultural anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. 2. Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert – Book two of the Dune series. Lately, I’ve had a…
I recently received a very interesting gift…a seemingly antique, hardcover edition of volume 2 of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, translated from French by Charles E. Wilbour, edited by Frederick Mynon Cooper. My sister got it at a garage sale in Gig Harbor, Washington, and unfortunately, volume 1 was nowhere to be found. Because it was volume 2, it…
Who better to describe Cloud Atlas than its author, David Mitchell. I quote a passage from Letters from Zedelghem which, rightly summarizes the entire novel: In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor: in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan’t know until it’s finished, and by then it’ll…
With a little over 3 months to go before the end of the year, I think it’s time I updated my reading list for 2012. I’ve only read 23 books out of my goal of 50, and with only a little over 100 days left before 2013, there’s no way I’ll be able to read…
The Misanthropologist 