Worming through Books
I am proud of having finished three books in 1 1/2 months considering my hectic work and social schedule! I guess my life isn't as off-kilter as I thought it was. :)
I finished The Player of Games, my introduction to Iain M. Banks, and from which I concluded that I love his storytelling and adorable Culture drones! Then I devoured (pretty quickly) Tim Cahill's Hold the Enlightenment, a compilation of wit-filled travel essays to inspire me for the upcoming Birthday Trip. And, the last book I've perused was Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club. I'm not really a Janeite, having read only Sense and Sensibility (though I truly enjoyed it), so I'm not able to form an opinion about this book with regards to the subject at hand. But I liked the manner by which the author revealed the lives of the different characters. I'm not blown away by the book, so I would give it 3 stars out of 5 were I to formally rate it. However, I must say that my curiosity's piqued for the movie. And my next Jane Austen read would probably be Pride and Prejudice.
Now I'm reading William Gibson's Idoru. I've just finished the first two chapters and can I just say that this guy is a frakkin' visionary? A freakishly accurate one at that. Well, what does one expect from the writer of Neuromancer? Though sometimes I feel like I'm drowning in his verbosity. As I won't be able to finish it before I go on vacay, it looks like this book will be my travel companion. I wonder if science fiction's a good choice for that?
I finished The Player of Games, my introduction to Iain M. Banks, and from which I concluded that I love his storytelling and adorable Culture drones! Then I devoured (pretty quickly) Tim Cahill's Hold the Enlightenment, a compilation of wit-filled travel essays to inspire me for the upcoming Birthday Trip. And, the last book I've perused was Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club. I'm not really a Janeite, having read only Sense and Sensibility (though I truly enjoyed it), so I'm not able to form an opinion about this book with regards to the subject at hand. But I liked the manner by which the author revealed the lives of the different characters. I'm not blown away by the book, so I would give it 3 stars out of 5 were I to formally rate it. However, I must say that my curiosity's piqued for the movie. And my next Jane Austen read would probably be Pride and Prejudice.
Now I'm reading William Gibson's Idoru. I've just finished the first two chapters and can I just say that this guy is a frakkin' visionary? A freakishly accurate one at that. Well, what does one expect from the writer of Neuromancer? Though sometimes I feel like I'm drowning in his verbosity. As I won't be able to finish it before I go on vacay, it looks like this book will be my travel companion. I wonder if science fiction's a good choice for that?