It’s summer. Traditionally a time for beach reading, fluff reading, right? This is how I’m justifying all the comics and manga to myself, anyway. Judge ye not, etc. 87. Spike: Asylum, by Brian Lynch (IDW Publishing, 2007) Brian Lynch has a terrible habit of over-explaining things both within the comics themselves, and then going over …
Last Shelf Life of 2012. Gonna be brief. 154. Sunset Park, by Paul Auster (Henry Holt and Co., 2010) I’d never read Auster before, but I’ve heard good things. Perhaps this wasn’t the best introduction. I found Sunset Park to be very disjointed and there were too many pointless references to baseball. I couldn’t get …
I’ve never really set targets for my reading before, beyond a general expectation that I’d read at least a hundred books a year, but last year a friend pushed me to challenge myself to commit to 150. According to Goodreads I surpassed it, but according to my own count I read 135. I read twenty-seven …
The last segment for 2011. For the full list, see 2011 Books Read. 126. The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides Centres around Madeleine Hanna, an English major in an on-again-off-again relationship with Leonard Morten (who may or may not be David Foster Wallace), much to the chagrin of Mitchell Grammaticus, who’s in love with fair …
Still playing catch-up. 116. Jacob’s Room, by Virginia Woolf Wonderfully impressionistic, it tells the story of Jacob Flanders, from boyhood to his death in the war. 117. The Boy Who Followed Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith The fourth in the five book series. Not as strong as the previous three, but fun nonetheless. 118. I Can …