I've started reading the blind lit date book: The Good Omens. Not really my cup of tea, so I'm having a little trouble getting through it. Though I will admit I have not gotten very far in the book yet, so I can't really call it.

I hear a lot of high praise for that book and I personally love Terry Pratchett, so I'd recommend giving it a good chance to hook you. Unless you're not much into light hearted fantasy, then maybe not. [lol]

Speaking of Terry Pratchett, I think I'm going to put of Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy off for another day in favor of Pratchett's Making Money. The writing style in Maggie was challenging for me to follow, and right now I just need a fun and easy to distraction.

Sorry, I had to dash off to get something done, and I forgot to respond till now. I was thinking of which of her books to respond, and they're all equally as good. I can't remember off the top of my head some of the weirder ones - there was one that I read and was like O.o What is going on? But the rest of them I've not been able to put down. A friend of mine introduced me to her and I've read every single one of her books - like 17 or so... can't remember the exact number of books she's written, but I've read pretty much all of them. :P

I'll check the library to see if they have any of hers. I was gonna go there today, but the wather's aweful so I didnt feel like it. But I'll check online. :)
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Bleh, they didn't have any. I'll make them order whenever I'm finished with my current book.

Oh, that sucks that they don't have any! :( I know our library in the next town over - has a ton of her books! Hopefully you can find them somewhere. =]

Our library is quite small, but they're very good with ordering books or borrowing them from other libraries if you need them to. So that's good. ^^

That's good at least! :)

I haven't given up, it's just a little slow going at the moment.

Man, I've really dropped the ball. I've gotta get caught back up soon. >.<

Finished the Murakami novel today! It sort of came together? Definitely not one of his best works, but he definitely delivered what I expected. "Hard Boiled Eggs Wonderland and the End of the World" was decent and classic Murakami, but I won't be recommending it to anyone. It took roughly 300 pages for the two plotlines to connect and even then, the ending wasn't terribly satisfying.

I'm going on Spring Break this week, so I'll have to dig thorugh my book shelves and pull out a couple novels that I haven't read yet. Something to keep my attention on the plane. [lol]

Which of Murakami's books would you recommend, Knerd? 1Q84 looks very interesting to me, but I haven't read it yet or heard much about his other books.


I'm not far into Making Money yet, but ahhh, I missed this series. There's something funny on nearly every page. I missed Moist. [lol]

I haven't read 1Q84 yet, but I did hear the first chapter on the radio. (I think that NPR played it as part of Selected Shorts.) It sounded really interesting, I'm definitely going to pick it up at some point. I'll just have to either save up all my money for a new edition or find a used copy of it that I can actually afford. [lol]

I liked "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by him. It has some really interesting characters and it's a novel where the lack of a plotline actually works out. I was caught up in the ride and not fussed about trying to figure out the story. You'd probably like this one, Cherry! It's magical realism that sort of revolves around a stray cat.

I will say that there's one very graphic scene in it, though. I made me feel sick the first time I read it - A man is remembering one of his experiences during WWII where his comrade was tortured and killed. It's...not for the faint of heart. Thankfully, though, that's only one small scene and it's not a big theme throughout the whole book.

That book sounds really interesting, thanks! I looked up a synopsis of it and I'm sold. [:)] Thanks for the warning about the graphic scene. I think I should be able to stomach it. Just as long as it's not about the cat... [lol] It's weird, but things about animals being hurt bothers me more than things about humans being hurt. Not that I value the life of an animal over that of a human, I guess I'm just more desensitized to (fictional) human pain since it's pretty prevalent in media.

So I kinda hit a lull in my reading, and I'm trying to ease myself back into reading, as I'm now behind -sigh- by reading books that I've read before but loved. :D Hopefully this'll work!

You could always choose to count re-reads. I always do. [:)]

Oh, yeah - well it's a book I've read in past years, I've not read it this year yet. ^_^ It's the first book in the Mary Russell Series by Laurie R. King that I'm currently reading. :)

I've read 2 novels by Murakami, "kafka on the beach" and "Sputnik Sweatheart". I remember I enjoyed Sputnik the most of those 2, maybe because it was shorter and I could get through it quicker. I kinda lost interest in Kafka in the second half of the book and I put down the book for a few weeks and when I finished it I had forgot some that happened earlier. I prefer to finish books at once. I'm not used to reading books for weeks and weeks since I've always read quickly.
I might read the "Wind-up-bird chronicle" at some point, I've heard it's the best of his from some others as well..

nemo, I love re-reading books when I'm out of the loop with reading. That way I know I like the book and it's usually faster to read something you've read before. :)

Aspinou: Yeah, and it in it's own way kinda gets you back into it. although it'd be nice if I could get time in my days to read. *laughs* >.< Although on the plus side, I'm getting back into photography again? :P but that's not reading.

Nemo: Yeah, I actually kind of miss the days when I used to travel a lot by train and bus now, it was perfect to read then.
Photography is fun though. :)

Aspinou: Yeah, I can see that being the perfect time to do reading!
Oh, it is! ^_^ I need to update my deviantArt page, with some of my new photos. ^_^

nemo: That's great. I like photographing and took a class of it in high school but I'm not that good at it.

I've never taken any classes in it myself - it's just a hobby for me, and I enjoy sharing my photography with friends.
Link to my dA is in my signature, if you're interested. ^_^

Would that book happen to be American On Purpose? Or is there a whole subgenre of Glaswegians-turned-Americans? [lol]