Sorry I'm late y'all.
Slowly giving up on every finding a home to buy in Seattle. So! Trying to make the apartment more liveable. I'm reading "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing" by Marie Kondo. It's kinda like if Murakami and Martha Stewart wrote a book together. It's a fun read but wouldn't take it too seriously.
I finally found the copy of Komiks: Comic Art in Russia that I bought for my wife. I think we need to reorganize our bookshelves sometime soon because it was lost in a section it doesn't belong in. Go figure. That said, I have some time off this week due to the holidays, so I'm looking forward to cracking it open. I think both ThatFanficGuy (who I can't shout out to right now cause of a bugski) and elizabeth are from Russia. I might pop a few questions their way if anything comes up.
I just started Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks. I've wanted to read something from Sacks for awhile, and this was the only ebook available at my library. I have 1Q84 and Lyra's Oxford next on my list. rinx - my brother's family has been house shopping in Seattle for awhile as well! I think they're finally close to closing on a place in the north suburbs somewhere. Good luck finding something!
Finishing off "Love in the Time of Cholera". It's okay; vivid and sometimes very beautiful prose, but very meandering and sometimes boring. I've struggled to keep my interest up at times.
I read A Christmas Carol again yesterday morning. I got a nice copy for Christmas a few years ago, so reading it has become kind of a new tradition for me. I'm also a few chapters into Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks, and I'm loving it. It's the best kind of science book. Really informative and beautifully written.
Slogging my way through The Making of Modern Japan. It's taken me most of a week to get through 100 pages. The writing isn't bad, but the subject matter is a bit dry, to say the least. I think it will pick up after we get to the Meiji period. The Shogunate period makes for some cool movies and all, but was pretty goddam boring from a geopolitical perspective.
I read The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson on the plane - that was excellent, well-deserving of its Hugo award I think. I plan on reading Stephen King's Bazaar of Bad Dreams over the next few days - I've heard good things though I doubt it can be as good as Night Shift, which really was a superb collection of short stories.
Finally read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It was a fun, addictive story that reminded me a lot of Ender's Game. I highly recommend it.
I really love Murakami for the most part. I had a bit of a hard time with 1Q84 (the ending really annoyed me I guess, too much left unresolved) and that sort of put me off him for a while, but I wanted to give him another go! I'd heard mixed reviews about this one, but I hear mixed reviews about most things I pick up to read. I'll let you know what I think!