Let’s play catch up!

I’ve done a lot of reading over the last many months, but not really talked about it. Starting with things that have been sitting in that list of books on the left . . .

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman. Yes indeedy, I am officially one of those obsessive Gaiman fans. I read books on paper and listen to them as audiobooks. I watch movie adaptations, no matter how badly done. I absolutely loved this book. I loved the universe the story took place in, the characters, the ties to mythology. It’s good stuff, this. And I think it’s a real sign of things to come, if you consider his more recent work.

Before the Frost by Henning Mankell. I’ve been on a bit of a Scandinavian mystery spree. I’m reading the Mankell books all out of order, because there are just so many. But this is a good one–Wallander’s daughter Linda takes the lead in this one, and does a great job. I can only read so many of these in a row, so I’ll probably work through Mankell’s books slowly. I love the darkness, but I prefer not to wallow in it.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. I love this book. I think I’m required to, because it’s a formative book for my generation, or some such balderdash. This was a re-read for me, because I wanted to replace images from the film with the images my own brain constructs. I love the film, mind you, but I like my own brain’s take on it even better.

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon. I’m a huge Chabon fan. I’ve read most of his work, and reread a number of them. I think I owe this one a re-read. I wasn’t as enamored of it as I would expect, considering the author and subject matter, but then I read it around the nadir of 2009, the year of torture. The story follows a pair of Jewish bandits, one Frankish and one Abyssinian, as they travel around the Caucasus at the end of the first millennium CE. I wanted to like it more. Maybe I will in a few years.

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