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First read book of the year! 📚 Out of The Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis Having only read Narnia before, it was interesting to read something Lewis wrote of a different genre & for an adult audience. Beautiful prose, unsurprisingly, and definitely plan to check out the other two books in the series.

been lagging a bit on reading and also doing multiple books at once, but Book #2 finished! The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien figured since I finally watched LotR and just read some Lewis, it’d be a good pick What I learned: 1. Gandalf fixes everything 2. Bombur is fat

Book #3! God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. This is the 3rd Vonnegut novel I’ve read recently, and it’s very charming as is his style. Multiple characters apparently make their way into some of his other novels, so looking forward to seeing them pop up!

I found the stuff about the Zampano and Navidson absolutely compelling but had no interest in the footnote story and stopped even reading them.

there’s definitely some parts of it that are very good, especially as he starts losing his grasp of sanity, but I didn’t get anything out of the various accounts of drug and sex escapades that you have to wade through

Yeah I found all the stuff about Bambi and tattoos extremely tedious

I fell off around the sexcapades cause I was reading it during flights and I just didn't care to be reading that squeezed in next to other people. I really should try to pick it up again while I'm home though.

Book #5 A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami My 7th Murakami I’ve read and had a blast with it. Maybe the most fun I’ve had reading a book of his, it is rather fast-paced, noir-y and just a good time. Did not realize it’s the 3rd of a trilogy tho, so will need to go back and read the first two.

Book #6 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Unfortunately haven’t been reading a lot lately, but finally finished this. Gabo’s thick prose was intimidating at times, but the depth of his characters is mesmerizing. Certainly a fascinating exploration on the complexities of love.

Book #7 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer Wanted something easy to get back into a regular reading habit, so revisited a childhood favorite. It’s a pretty fun take on magic/fairies/goblins etc but I think I mostly liked it as a kid because the main character reminded me of Ken Ichijoji from Digimon 02.

Is it as good as 'Love In the Time of Scurvy'?

I really enjoy the covers for the 2015 editions of all his books (like this one here). It’s so neat they all form a big puzzle. There’s a diagram of it here. 99designs.com/blog/famous-...

oh I had no idea about this, how neat!

I definitely need to read more Haruki. Kafka on the Shore was so weird. I both hated and loved it and still think about it two years after reading it.

My favorite book, always glad when I see someone give it a go. Did you find the check mark?

I didn’t! I did my best to check all the footnotes and everything, but some things did elude me

Yeah that’s feels like the vibe haha I’m rebuilding my interest in reading so idk if I’ll get to it this year but I wanna get a copy in my hands this year

I should finally start reading it in earnest. I'm maybe 100 pages in and I really wanna experience it, but it's probably the most complicated to read book I've ever read lol

The first 100 or so pages was definitely the hurdle for me, that was like 3 months, and then I finished the rest in 2 weeks. You start getting a lot of the mostly blank pages after that haha

ICYMI, the author‘s sister is the musician “Poe” who released an album based on or otherwise related to this book. It’s quite good.: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted...

I really want to read this one! It never pops up on my discount book website though, lol