How is everyone doing so far? I should be completing Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice late this evening or tomorrow night. My reading time has been limited this week by the start of school. As the old prostitute said, it’s not the work, it’s the commute. Mine was made worse when the district I work for decided…
Tag: fiction
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
I realize my sample size is basically two, but what is it about Japanese writers and cats? If you’re a fan of Haruki Murakami, then you know his interest in cats. They are such a strong presence in his novel The Wind-up Bird that they cast something of a shadow on the rest of his writing….
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
I didn’t really like Naomi Alderman’s novel, Disobedience. I found it kind of annoying. But it has stayed with me for some time, near the surface, too. Maybe I don’t like it because it hits oddly close to home. The characters bothered me. I believed in them; I just wanted to smack some sense into…
The Ides of March by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Have you ever known the ending from page one and still been unable to put the book down? Since Italian novelists Valerio Massimo Manfredi’s novel The Ides of March is about the last few days of Julius Ceasar’s life, we all know how the book is going to end, at least we all know how…
Deep River by Shusako Endo
This books was one of the strangest reading experiences I’ve had in a while. The story concerns a group of Japanese tourists, visiting Buddhist holy sites on a tour of India. It’s a bit like one of those 1970’s movies that featured a disparate cast of characters thrown together and then forced to confront each…
