Why didn't anyone tell me…

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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