Recent Reads
In this holiday week in the US, here's a list of the fiction I've read in the past couple months.
- Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman -- Typical Hillerman; a good quick read.
- Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood -- I usually like Margaret Atwood's work, but this collection of short stories didn't do much for me.
- Summerland by Michael Chabon -- My first exposure to Chabon's novels. This fantasy story was interesting, but didn't grab me the same way as other fantasy books I've read. I'll withold judgement on Chabon until I've tried some of his other novels ("The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" is up next).
- Oblivion by David Foster Wallace -- David Foster Wallace is certainly unique. His writing is quite dense, and for the first time in quite a while I found myself needing to look up vocabularly words in a dictionary while reading fiction. Of the eight stories in the book, I enjoyed about three of them. I'd like to try one of his novels at some point, but maybe not immediately.
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech -- this novel for kids was quite well-written and enjoyable.
- The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason -- I wasn't impressed with this best-seller. The concept was interesting, but the characters didn't strike me as believable or well-developed.
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow -- It took about 100 pages to get into, but after that the story carried me along.
- Next by Michael Crichton -- (in progress)
