squeezing out the last bits of summer

[aperfectsong]

In case you're interested, I'm checking in with a few recent reads/listens:

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer (my review here)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel (My review here)
American

Comments

[mmmrorschach]

Hooray for Amy Hempel and American Gods!

[kerosinkanister]

I must know! Why did you love American Gods?

I really liked Neverwhere and Stardust and Coraline but AG left me flat (awesome idea but just never came together in a satisfying way for me).

Is Don Quixote getting better? I had to read that for some class way back when, but only the English translation.

[aperfectsong]

I thought American Gods was beautiful and it pulled me in better than Neverwhere did. Things I really loved: The Fat Kid (Internet), all of the dialogue - and the different "voices", the use of American monuments as holy lands, risen-from-the-dead Laura, all of the fictional-historical tales of Gods from other countries. I thought it was a really well-put together book and had I been reading it instead of listening to it, I wouldn't have been able to put it down. I listened to it at work obsessively though. And Gaiman's prose was beautiful throughout the whole thing. I downloaded Stardust and will probably listen to it next week.

As for Don Quixote, I abandoned him a few scenes after the famous windmills scene. I just couldn't handle his idiocy any longer.

[kerosinkanister]

Thanks for the response! I don't know why it took my so long to comment but I just saw this tab had been open for days! (I usually keep dozens of tabs open at once, but lose track of things)