Kristin's Book Log


Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Ian McEwan's Saturday was July's book group pick. It was only the second McEwan book I've read and it was very different than the other, The Innocent. Saturday takes place on a single Saturday in London. Many things happen on that one day to the protangonist, a neurosurgeon. While I was reading it I was reminded of some of Nicholson Baker's books like Mezzanine which take place in very compressed periods of times. I liked Saturday but didn't love it.



Genreflecting by Diana Tixier Herald is one of the classics of readers' advisory tools. I haven't read the most recent edition, but I went through an ebook of the previous edition (the 5th). It provides a good overview of many genres and subgenres of fiction, along with suggestions of books that fall in each of the categories.



Since 01-01-2004
Read 976
Bought 729
Total: 247
Kristin is being good and catching up on her backlog

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Last 5
The Surgeon's Tale by Cat Rambo and Jeff VanderMeer
Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks
Instructions by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter
The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks

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Currently reading
Memory & Dream by Charles de Lint

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