Yes! Only five books read! This month has a nice selection of fiction/non/mystery/play and even a frustrated surrender.
Read
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
Matt and I read aloud.
I don't think I've ever read a Neil Gaiman book and this was a nice introduction. I loved the London setting and the fantasy element was just right.
Broken Habor
Tana French
This was another great Tana French novel, I would probably rank it second on the list. (Here's my rundown: The Likeness; Broken Harbor; In the Woods; Faithful Place) I had great empathy for the main character and loved how French knows just how to twist the plot at just the right moment.
The Man Who Quit Money
Mark Sundeen
Interesting insight into a guy who hasn't used money since the early 2000s.
The Crying Tree
Naseem Rakha
Read for Kenton Book Group
This was an okay book, mostly it was a relief to be able to read it after attempting and giving up on the September selection and slogging through--though ultimately loving--the August selection. In comparison to Midnight's Children and Jane Eyre, this was a breeze. I found the writing to be so-so in places, and I sometimes found the characters a bit cliched, but it was a good enough book.
10/16/12--This just in! Thanks to the Library, our book group was visited by Naseem Rakha, the author of the book and she was rather mesmerizing. Listening to her talk about her experiences as a reporter and her experiences with people surrounding the death penalty issue gave me a deeper appreciation of the book. Thanks to the Library and thanks to Ms. Rakha for talking tonight.
Measure for Measure
Wm. Shakespeare
Boy howdy, but I have completely fallen off the horse on the "read before you see" project as we watched Northwest Classical Theater company perform this in the spring. I did not love this play, with so much moral quandary and double crossing.
Started and did not finish
Midnight's Children
Soloman Rushdie
Book Group Selection.
I've not read any Rushdie before and I still haven't read any. I made it to page 94 before giving up. The prose was too dense, the setting too foreign, the plot too plodding. Except for one person, the other eight of us in the group didn't finish this book. I've heard Rushdie's essays are good, perhaps I will investigate those.
I love Neil Gaiman. You have to read Starstruck. The Wolves in the Walls and Coroline are AWESOME, too. Did not like his Newbery winner, The Graveyard Book. I started that one and didn't finish it.
ReplyDeleteGood job on reading less books.