The Last 17 Books I've Read
Sometimes I find hard to actually glean any information from the visual clutter of Goodreads, so here's a list: the last 17 books I've read, abridged. If I can muster the fortitude I'll throw in some links, comments and maybe some more attractive formatting, but I'm already feeling a bit lazy from the longer, darker nights.
Personal Days
Park, Ed
Then We Came to the End
Ferris, Joshua
It Still Moves
Petrusich, Amanda
The Somnambulist
Barnes, Jonathan
Consider the Lobster
Wallace, David Foster
Tintin in America
Hergé
All the Sad Young Literary Men
Gessen, Keith
Gilead
Robinson, Marilynne
Vile Bodies
Waugh, Evelyn
Love in the Time of Cholera
Márquez, Gabriel García
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Martin, Steve
Black Postcards: A Musical Romance
Wareham, Dean
Shortcomings
Tomine, Adrian
The Extra Man
Ames, Jonathan
Heavy Weather
Wodehouse, P.G.
The Conscience of a Liberal
Krugman, Paul
Fox Bunny Funny
Hartzell, Andy
Personal Days
Park, Ed
Then We Came to the End
Ferris, Joshua
It Still Moves
Petrusich, Amanda
The Somnambulist
Barnes, Jonathan
Consider the Lobster
Wallace, David Foster
Tintin in America
Hergé
All the Sad Young Literary Men
Gessen, Keith
Gilead
Robinson, Marilynne
Vile Bodies
Waugh, Evelyn
Love in the Time of Cholera
Márquez, Gabriel García
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Martin, Steve
Black Postcards: A Musical Romance
Wareham, Dean
Shortcomings
Tomine, Adrian
The Extra Man
Ames, Jonathan
Heavy Weather
Wodehouse, P.G.
The Conscience of a Liberal
Krugman, Paul
Fox Bunny Funny
Hartzell, Andy
Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008
2 Comment(s):
Oooh, Meg LOVES Gilead. What did you think?!?!?!?
From prior correspondence:
'I hadn't realized until after I started reading it that Barack Obama also (claims that he) thinks very highly of "Gilead." It was a very hard book to read, at least to get adjusted to. As James Wood put it: "The diary form that reports on daily and habitual occurrences tends to be relatively static; it is difficult to whip the donkey of dailiness into big, bucking, dramatic scenes. Those who, like this reader, feel that novels -- especially novels about clergymen -- are best when secular, comic and social, may need a few pages to get over the lack of these elements."
'Also, most of the contemporary relationships don't make sense in context until close to the end of the book. And it still may be too soon for me to enjoy any more conversations between small town folks on esoteric theological points; I might require another decade or two of relatively cosmopolitan life to balance the scales. That said, it is a rather incredible book and probably not one I'll ever forget.'
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