Minimal commentary on these for the moment, but let me know if you want to talk about any of them. Really, this is just for my own reference. I feel like I'm forgetting something...
Fall 2010
You Never Give Me Your Money, Peter Doggett (Discussed here.)
Portnoy's Complaint, Phillip Roth (It was strange reading this in public.)
American Pastoral, Phillip Roth (A marsh you like swimming in.)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (Epic.)
The Beatles: The Biography, Bob Spitz (Indelicate and uneven, but a hard narrative to ruin.)
Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem (A slow wade into a superhero story.)
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of a New Hollywood, Mark Harris (Superb non-fiction.)
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (Actually that good.)
Christmas 2009
Late Nights on Air, Elizabeth Hay (I did not enjoy this.)
Nikolski, Nicolas Dickner (Thankfully, sparse.)
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (Read it, because you can.)
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam (Barely remembered, but I seemed to enjoy it.)
Unfinished or Abandoned
Chronicles, Volume One, Bob Dylan (So. Many. Names. I'll finish it, it's worth it.)
Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman (Trying to understand the kids.)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie (It's a long story.)
Underworld, Don DeLillo. (Fascinating and sprawling, but couldn't renew it.)
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (What textbooks should be, and abandoned accordingly.)
Finish "Eating the Dinosaur" (spelling :P), or alternatively, read his novel "Downtown Owl," much better.
ReplyDeleteThanks, corrected. And I'll grab "Downtown Owl" next time, I've been circling it at the local library for awhile. Mostly for the assonance.
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