Monday night I stayed up a bit too late polishing off Ha Jin's
Waiting It became a nice detour from
Possession (which amazingly enough, for a book by A.S. Byatt, I'm enjoying) after I started reading it on the exercise bike at the gym. (They've started a "take a book/leave a book" table there and it was one of the few non-romance novels).
I was especially impressed with
Waiting after I discovered that it wasn't translated, that Jin writes in English which isn't his native tongue.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 4:53 PM 
