It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
and WWW Wednesdays

BOOKS JUST READ ​

click on the covers to know more about them​

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Killing Commendatore I devoured this new 680 page novel by Murakami, and I’m still a bit stunned by its beauty, and disappointed I’m done. So far, I kept saying 1Q84 was my favorite by him, but now this one replaces the top place in my chart. Come back tomorrow to read my full review!

Being There I just watched this classic movie, and thought it might be good to read the book. I was shocked to realize, thanks to my lists, that I had read it about 10 years ago, and could not remember doing so, even after rereading the first pages. So I reread it all, it took only a few hours. It’s good, but I think the movie did a fantastic job, and the movie’s ending has more meaning to me than the book’s.

CURRENTLY READING

BOOKS UP NEXT
same as last week, unless my copy of
The Clockmaker’s Daughter arrives!

CURRENT GIVEAWAYS

  2 books for grab for the October books of the month giveaway
And this children book giveaway open until Nov 3

WHAT ABOUT YOUR READING?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
and WWW Wednesdays

BOOKS JUST READ ​

click on the covers to know more about them​

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Newcomer Another cleverly plotted and structured mystery by the Japanese master of the genre! Highly recommended for all lovers of smart stories, and readers interested in diverse and international literature. I’m doubly excited for this one, because it’s my first review for Criminal Element. I’ll post my review when it’s live on their site

99 Ways to Tell a Story The Oulipo movement has always attracted me, for instance in the writings by Georges Pérec, Italo Calvino (see my review of his amazing If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler), and obviously its founder: Raymond Queneau and his famous Exercices de Style (Exercises in Style): he takes one short and simple event, and then retells that same thing in 99 different styles. Matt Madden does a fantastic job by doing the exact same thing, but this time all in different variations with graphics and comics. For each, you have the genre on the left page, and the variation itself on the right. The Book Inspector has a cool video of it, You can pause to look closer at each page, that will give you a great idea of what this is all about. So well done. I really enjoyed it a lot.

CURRENTLY READING

BOOKS UP NEXT
same as last week!

CURRENT GIVEAWAYS

  2 books for grab for the October books of the month giveaway
And this children book giveaway open until Nov 3

WHAT ABOUT YOUR READING?

Top Ten  Longest Books I’ve Ever Read

TTT for October 9, 2018
#TopTenTuesday

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Click on the covers to know more about the books,
but as most are classics, you have probably heard about them

Have you read any of these?
Which one is your favorite?
What’s the longest book you have ever read?