Why didn’t anyone tell me…

I’ll fess up now. I like audiobooks. I spend too much time commuting and too little time with the paper books in hand, so I got hooked on audiobooks back in 1998 when I discovered the Rob Ingles version  of Lord of the Rings on Napster. I since found the whole set on ebay, so [...]

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It’s been a while since I updated my reading log. I’ve just finished the sequence up to The Far Side of the World, by Patrick O’Brian. It’s one of his better stories, partly because of how schizophrenic it is. It’s all over. There’s shipwreck, chase, despair, injury, all sorts of things, all in a remarkably [...]

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Oh, and I also picked up The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It’s a short story collection that includes one of the earliest Jeeves stories, and honestly Jeeves just plays a bit part. It feels so different than the rest of the Jeeves stories I’ve encountered so far [...]

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I just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. All I can think of is that he’s the modern equivalent of Ernest Hemingway, that cheerful soul. There were a couple things I thought were odd about the book and I won’t be reading any more McCarthy. First, the characters’ names are “The Man” and “The Boy” [...]

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This month I picked up Restless mainly on good reviews. I thought it was good, there was a definite spy vs. spy feeling to it. The premise is that a mother starts telling her daughter that she (mother) was a spy just before WWII, and tells her all about it. The daughter’s story is mainly [...]

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Just finished No Country for Old Men. It felt like reading Fargo. I can’t say I enjoyed it very much.
Before that I finished off the end of the Harry Potter series, done at high speed. It may seem lame but I still consider them extraordinary examples of foresight in story design.
Next I have a [...]

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I didn’t realize how fast I go through books until I started posting these. Yikes!
Harry Potter series with iPhone on “Faster” setting. It keeps my mind from wandering too much. Cramming each book into 2-3 days helps me see the bigger patterns easier, and having read the seventh book already, I’m taking note of the [...]

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Now about halfway into “I Am Legend,” which feels like a short story and up to this point is more a fun book than a thinking book. I haven’t seen the movie, but I thought it was an interesting enough premise to justify the short-ish audiobook. Not so sure on the narrator, he seems to [...]

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Currently deep in Desolation Island which is probably one of my favorite books of all time. This is my fourth trip through the Aubrey-Maturin books, and I still love them.

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