Books and more books
I just finished
The Time Traveler's Wife the other day. It took me a long time to read it cos it's such a huge book that I cant lug it around so I can only read it during the weekends. I got it really cheap too (S$5 I think), at a book warehouse sale where I also carted home loads of other stuff (which I havent got down to reading yet).
It's quite a good read though all the different dates/times (cos of the time traveling) were a bit confusing in the beginning. It's a love story in essence, but told in a different way. Not bad, but I dont think it's something I'd pick up and read again. 3 stars.
What I really really want to read though is Nick Hornby's
The Polysyllabic Spree. I've been checking out the bookstores but none of them has it in stock yet. It's a disgrace really! But I've placed my order with Kinokuniya so I hope to get it within the "2 weeks" they promised me.
In the meantime, I'm reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's
Love in the Time of Cholera. I'm about 100 pages into the book, and I'm sorry to report that I dont see what the hype is about. It's not bad but it's not like, wow! you know? Maybe the wow! will hit me later in the book, which had better be quick cos I'm losing my patience with the book, and I'm never one to force myself to read from cover to cover if the story doesnt hold me.
1 Comments:
as i said on my blog - hornby is so good - whatever he writes about seems interesting. i doubt if i'll ready any of the books he reviews, yet his writing is insightful and it's a great read...
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