Books Bought: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke.
I haven't read anything of Rilke, although I have heard much and read some quotes of his, so this is general education.
Graphic Novels: Persepolis, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Y the Last Man Book 10. Persepolis! Been wanting to read it but have been lagging as usual, until I bummed into MPH at Novena and bought it on a whim because they had 20% off all graphic novels. Buffy is my staple - it helps with the grieving over the ended television series. I don't know what I'm going to buy next after Y the Last Man. Am considering Fables, given all the hype, but there is trepidation over the projected costs.
Books Read: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson was gorgeous. It's the kind of book that you feel like only reading one page a day just to bask in the moment. In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami was quite the quickie. I suffered cold extremities while reading; he has this way of describing murder scenes that might turn people into anorexics of the purging kind. The accidental by Ali Smith was "Hah?...". I don't understand the brilliant reviews. I get the gist of the book but I don't get the point. And there were too many thoughts stuck together like spaghetti gone cold. The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson was surprisingly unlike her previous books. The futuristic setting places the book sort of in line with A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, only less dystopian. Environmental gospel meets Groundhog Day meets A.I the movie sums this book up.
Books currently reading: A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham. His writing is exquisite, the kind that can form an impenetrable bubble around you when you read in a bus packed with plastic-bag-laden aunties raucous adolescents and bawling babies.
Still waiting to be read: Middlemarch by George Eliot, David Copperfield, The Kite Runner and Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (re read).
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