Tbickle wrote:
Thanks for the feedback! I'm reading the Wind-Up Bird now but was thinking about checking out some of his other books and wasn't sure if that was a good place to go next. Maybe I'll try one of the two others you've listed.

I appreciated The Wind-up Birds Chronicle, but less than the ones I mentioned. I would also bring After Dark to your attention. Oh yes, and Sputnik Sweetheart, but, again, Kafka on the Shore is my favorite. Norwegian Wood is different in that it appears more like ... pseudo-biography, nothing weird or woo, could have been me if I had been born in Japan (and more of a ladies' man ) as Murakami-san and I are both born 1949.

mraltair wrote:
2-What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard P. Feynman

I have read that book, it's absolutely fantastic! I think I've read it in one sitting, couldn't literally put it out to sleep! What did you tought about it , mraltair?

One more

1- O Pajem Formidável dos Índicios( The Formidable Page of Evidences)-Alberto de Lacerda (Poetry)
2- Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Líttin- Gabriel García Marquez
3-Gaia- A new look at life on Earth- James Lovelock
4-Catálogo de Sombras (Catalogue of Shadows)- José Eduardo Agualusa (Collection of Short Stories)
5- The National Revolutionary war of the Spanish People against Fascism (1936-1939): Critical Analysis- AA. VV. Vanguardia Obrera Editions
6- O caso das criancinhas desaparecidas( The Missing Children Case)- Luiz Pacheco


Now I've started reading On the Origin of Species... so the next one will take awhile

1. A Test To Destruction - Henry Williamson
2. My Spin on Cricket - Richie Benaud
3. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
4. Treason's Harbour - Patrick O'Brian
5. The Most Beautiful Woman In Town and Other Stories - Charles Bukowski
6. Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare - Imogen Evans et al
7. Family Album - Penelope Lively
8. Invasion 1940 - Derek Robinson

I for one object to this flagrant cheating!











Not really, it sounds quite sensible in fact.

#6 "Black Sky" (Svörtloft) by Arnaldur Indridasson. You have read the waLLANDER books by Mankell and find them too twee? Then this is for you ...

1. Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light Mort Rosenblum
2. Midnight Tides Book 5 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen Stephen Erickson

New for 2012
3 Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
4 Catching Fire Suzanne Collins
5 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins
6 The Bone Hunters Book 6 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen Stephen Erickson
7 Reapers' Gale Book 7 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen Stephen Erickson

#7 Exode by Sfar, an adult comic, the third book of Le Chst du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat). Very funny, very thoughtful. really really good stuff.

Getting on with Baudolino by Eco.

1) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - G.W. Dahlquist. Steampunk FTW!
2) Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch.
3) A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin.

NilsGLindgren wrote:Getting on with Baudolino by Eco.

Fantastic stuff, enjoy.

1. Keeping the dead - Tess Gerritsen
2. World war Z - Max Brooks

#8 Baudolino by Umberto Eco. I tried reading this in Italian when it was new, but, unfortunately, my Italian was only up to 200 pages when I folded (hint: Baudolino finds a group of men building a new city and asks them what they're doing). So, finished it in Swedish. Eco seems to have a liking for incorrigible liars.

1. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
2. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
3. I Lock My Door Upon Myself - Joyce Carol Oates
4. Sexy - Joyce Carol Oates
5. 11/22/63 - Stephen King

#9 Vol 5 of Le Chat du Rabbin, Jerusalem d'Afrique.
As a very short foreword, the author (Joann Sfar) says (my translation): For a long time I have thought it is superfluous to make a album against racism. It appeared to me that it went without saying, it was kicking in open doors. Times change, apparently. No doubt everythimg has already been said, but, as noone listens, you have to start again.

Worth contemplating.