I know I promised a review of Dogs and Demons but I think that’ll take a little longer to put together so instead I’ll focus on another book I finished recently, Amin Maalouf’s In the Name of Identity. This is the first book I’ve read by Maalouf, better known in the English-speaking world as a [...]
One of the things that’s great about the book club is that it’s encouraging me to read more. I’ve finished the next book for the club, Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Big Country, and have almost finished a second, Alex Kerr’s Dogs and Demons. Kerr’s book is really incredible. I’m thinking of writing a fuller [...]
I neglected to mention in the last entry that we had another meeting of the book club last week. This is the second time I’ve come along and the first that I’ve attending after having read the book. In this case it was Ryu Murakami’s (the other Murakami) Coin Locker Babies. Although I didn’t enjoy [...]