La Maravilla (Alfredo Véa, Jr.)
At first, I had a hard time getting into this novel. Perhaps this is because I was trying to read it in 5-minute increments…. Anyway, once I dedicated a more significant amount of time to…
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
First impressions: interesting, entertaining, puzzling. I’m really interested by how the form of this novel — alternating chapters that initially appear to be in separate worlds but ultimately converge — mirrors the content. Not only…
Tracks (Louise Erdrich)
Now I can see why so many people recommended this book to me. It’s a very interesting read, especially for someone who’s interested in the things I’m interested in. For one thing, the politics of…
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)
I’ve read this book a number of times now, but every time it has me from the first sentence: “There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a…
Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
If I had to describe this veritable tome of a book in one word, I’d have to say that that word is INTENSE. I’ve read Rushdie in the past — Haroun and the Sea of…