I would call it Eco-light. It is a satisfying read, but not as intellectually intensse as Eco, but still not chopped liver.

Exactly what my dad said. I need to pick up both Davinci and Focault's. I actually just bought my mom a collection of essays by Umberto on the subject of novels. Looked really interesting, I'll have to ask her what she thought of it.

Um, U of IA is in Iowa City. In case anyone was making travel plans.

So, spooky but my head won't hurt?

Oops, my bad. The article I was reading was from a DeMoines paper.

I'm in the midst of a few books.....I hate this thing I'm doing.

Life of Pi
Naked

Just started Vicious Circle by Margaret Case Harriman. :evil:

I just read The Dirty Girls Social Club and I loved it. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the author and I share the same name.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

Good stuff!

Oooo - Grenouille, the Tick - I loved this book. It used to be bed time reading for Not Afraid and I, but I got impatient as Lisa fell asleep and I had to read ahead - Sorry.

Perhaps though, this is reason to pick it up again...

So do you find your self paying closer attentions to scents and fragrences now?

Actually, the book appealed to me because of my obsessive nose. Sometimes it fails me. I'm not someone who can whiff a meal and know the ingredients that went into it. But I've got a fairly acute sense of smell, and I’m very, very affected by scent. Moved by it, I guess. Or it brings me into a memory in a way that’s rather jarring. Our sense of smell is, in a way, our most visceral sense. I’m always making jokes about wanting to sniff people’s necks or heads, but there’s more truth in the joke than anything else.

I’m only just at the beginning of the novel, where he’s growing up in the orphanage. I’m totally loving it. I cannot wait for the depravity to begin. It’s right up my alley with all these other things I’ve been thinking about lately.

So happy to know people who are reading this book. I’m sure I’ll have more to say, and things to ask, the further in I get.

I actually came across the book while looking at Alan Rickman’s IMDB info. I was curious about his upcoming projects, and it turns out he’ll be in the movie based on this book. My curiosity was piqued, and there it was on Amazon, a book written as if tailored to my particular interests. Wheeee!