I LOVED Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It's probably one of my favorite books. I really enjoyed the slow unravelling of the first 600 pages, and the crazy non-stop action of the last 300. Dickens and Austen meet fantasy. Just loved it. And she writes just about the scariest traditional vision of faery folk I've ever read. The footnotes were, for me, captivating. And I positively crushed all over Childermass.

Oh yeah - I got a kick out of the footnotes.

I read over a 100 pages of Neverwhere today - somehow this book is improved greatly when reading on public transportation.

I'm taking my first foray into Murakami. I suppose I should have perused the recommendations here for what would be a good one to start with...but I just grabbed the first one that I liked the description for, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. So far, I like.

I picked up two books today...

"The Best Short Stories of O. Henry"

and

"Skinny Legs and All", one of the Tom Robbins books that I somehow overlooked.

Should be interesting to go back and forth between the two. :)

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris

Light, easy to read in short snatches

GD: That Murakami if one of the 3 neither of us have read. We've both been on quite a Murakami jag latel.

Sinny Legs and All! I completely remember the time and place I was when I read that. I am 22 years old and lying on the bed in the first "room" Chris and I shared and reading that particular TR book. How funy to have such a strong memory of place and time.

Sam - LOVE LOVE LOVE Sedaris. We saw him read again recently and he only gets better and better.

I'm finishing p a collection of Murakami short stories titled "The Elephant Vanishes". I keep bouncing around between books which is very unusual for me.

Just Finished Norwegian Wood, by Murakami - unlike his other books, this one has none of the fantastical elements - but the characters and situations were very compeling, I say it's one of my favorites - but I haven't read any I didn't like yet.

Next up I, Lucifer

He he he Just found audio of Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol

His reading is about 6 minutes in.

:snap: :snap:

Another thread has inspired me to reread (again, as who knows how many times I've read it) Animal Farm by George Orwell.