This Year's Reading

[ninebelow]

#12 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera (translated by Michael Henry Heim)
#13 Laughter And Forgetting by Milan Kundera (translated by Aaron Asher)

I really liked the former and Laughter And Forgetting is very much a companion piece, further drawing out the autobiographical, historical and critical elements of Unbearable Lightness.

Comments

[rosefox]

Death's Head was the first book in a while to make me laugh aloud as I was reading it. More like cackling, actually. "Everything set to 11" is a great way to describe it.

We just got galleys for Death's Head: Maximum Offense (Del Rey, April) and I'm both excited and nervous that it won't be as much fun.

[greyarea]

I blame The Unbearable Lightness of Being entirely for the "thing" I have for women in bowler hats.

Walking past Bradford & Bingley these days is always a pleasure though.