Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly wasn't as good as some of his other books. It's about drug addiction from the point of view of the drug addict, as opposed to that of the people watching him. Not one I'll likely reread.

I think I'd rather have seen A Streetcar Named Desire than have read it, but read it I did. Not bad at all. The movie is now in my netflix queue, but it'd be fun to see it on stage sometime.

I liked Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries, though it's a very small book. It's another look at the role of women in Iran, though a more playful one than Persepolis.

I have a bad habit when it comes to books of short stories. I tend to read one, and then put the book aside for some long period of time. Monkey Brain Sushi is a case in point. It's a book of short stories by modern Japanese writers. I liked some of the stories a lot, others were ok, and others I barely remember because the I started the book so long ago. I picked it up originally because there's a story in it by Haruki Murakami, but I think I'm going to need to track down books by some of the other writers.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 10:58 AM