My silence has been due to the fact that Mark Kurlansky's 1968 is taking me awhile, and the fact that I forgot to post anything when I finished A Walk in the Woods.

Last night I ventured to Powell's to see Susanna Clarke do a reading. Amusingly enough, she's another PK. I'll have to see if I can detect an influence of that in her book, whenever I get around to reading it.
posted by kristin at 4:29 PM

I went to see Marjane Satrapi speak at Powells last night. She's worth a listen if you get a chance. While I was there I picked up Persepolis 2 and got my copy of Persepolis signed. Apparently her next book will be something other than continued memoirs. I finished Persepolis 2 by the time I got home. Recommended.

While I was there I also picked up:
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Spin States by Chris Moriarty
Facts for Visitors by Srikanth Reddy (who was in my high school English classes; what different paths we've taken in life!)

I'm working on Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods which is making me want to hike the AT or PCT sometime before I die, though I know in reality I'm probably way too much of a wimp to actually do it.
posted by kristin at 10:06 AM

Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla didn't disappoint. I've loved the series ever since I first started it quite awhile ago now given the huge gap between books 3 and 4. I'm now eagerly awaiting books 6 and 7.
posted by kristin at 10:38 AM

Between travelling and being sick I've neither read much, nor posted about it.

Steve Aylett's Slaughtermatic was an odd read. I'm not sure I liked it at all, but there were phrases and paragraphs that made me laugh out loud. (Quite a few of them too).

Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love was good enough to keep me awake for the last hour of my very very long travel day. I'm curious about the movie now, but apparently it doesn't yet exist on DVD.
posted by kristin at 4:34 PM