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laurainlimbo at 10:30pm on 01/04/2008 under books, haruki murakami, poll, reading, thomas wolfe
laurainlimbo at 10:30pm on 01/04/2008 under books, haruki murakami, poll, reading, thomas wolfeI was asked by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pnksaph to write about the latest book I read and what I'm reading now. Luckily I happened to recently read something fabulous, and am in the process of reading a really fascinating book (and I can't wait to get back to it).
The last complete novel I read was The Golden Compass (or in the UK, Northern Lights), by Phillip Pullman. I read it around mid January when I went to visit my family. It was really quite interesting, and intriguing, especially considering all of the controversy that surrounded it and the release of the movie. I would like to read the other two books in the series, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
The latest thing that I read was a novella by Thomas Wolfe called The Lost Boy , which is actually an extension of some of the characters in his famous novel Look Homeward, Angel . Not to be confused with the contemporary journalist and author Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe wrote in the 20s and 30s, and was considered by William Faulkner to be his generation's best writer. I concur. I was swept up by Wolfe's beautifully descriptive prose, and his memories of a brother who he never really knew, and his search for the childhood home where his brother died. In fact, the entire first chapter (the novella is written in four parts, or chapters), which is told from the point of view of the author's brother (the lost boy), would make a fantastic teaching tool for a writing course in a college or university. Anyone who appreciates the English language should read Wolfe.
Currently I have about four books by my bed, but haven't been able to get into any of them. Then I picked up a book on a whim the other day by a Japanese author named Haruki Murakami . The book is called Kafka on the Shore , and was written in 2002. I couldn't really begin to sum it up for you, but can only tell you that it's really engrossing, and fascinating, a bit surreal and deep and somewhat dark and mysterious. The characters include a runaway teen, talking cats, and a "mentally defective sexagenarian" as John Updike calls him, who lost his mental functions as a child during WWII. I can't wait to see where it goes,as right now it's just kind of floating in this unknown, which I love!
So if you're still reading this, I'd love for you to take ( this fun poll )
why thank you!!
I hope everyone is having a good week. Life update is coming soon, along with the answer todawnie1970's question about life and death.
pnksaph to write about the latest book I read and what I'm reading now. Luckily I happened to recently read something fabulous, and am in the process of reading a really fascinating book (and I can't wait to get back to it). The last complete novel I read was The Golden Compass (or in the UK, Northern Lights), by Phillip Pullman. I read it around mid January when I went to visit my family. It was really quite interesting, and intriguing, especially considering all of the controversy that surrounded it and the release of the movie. I would like to read the other two books in the series, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
The latest thing that I read was a novella by Thomas Wolfe called The Lost Boy , which is actually an extension of some of the characters in his famous novel Look Homeward, Angel . Not to be confused with the contemporary journalist and author Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe wrote in the 20s and 30s, and was considered by William Faulkner to be his generation's best writer. I concur. I was swept up by Wolfe's beautifully descriptive prose, and his memories of a brother who he never really knew, and his search for the childhood home where his brother died. In fact, the entire first chapter (the novella is written in four parts, or chapters), which is told from the point of view of the author's brother (the lost boy), would make a fantastic teaching tool for a writing course in a college or university. Anyone who appreciates the English language should read Wolfe.
Currently I have about four books by my bed, but haven't been able to get into any of them. Then I picked up a book on a whim the other day by a Japanese author named Haruki Murakami . The book is called Kafka on the Shore , and was written in 2002. I couldn't really begin to sum it up for you, but can only tell you that it's really engrossing, and fascinating, a bit surreal and deep and somewhat dark and mysterious. The characters include a runaway teen, talking cats, and a "mentally defective sexagenarian" as John Updike calls him, who lost his mental functions as a child during WWII. I can't wait to see where it goes,as right now it's just kind of floating in this unknown, which I love!
So if you're still reading this, I'd love for you to take ( this fun poll )
why thank you!!
I hope everyone is having a good week. Life update is coming soon, along with the answer to
dawnie1970's question about life and death.
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