I am just back from a 3 week vacation, which gave me the chance to read a lot more than average.
I read :
John Williams - Stoner. Wonderful, simple tale about a simple man in simple language but very beautiful and moving. Very easy to identify with the main character. Worth all the praise it gets.
Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the beach. Like many of his novels it is full of magic realism. Somehow I can take this from Murakami a lot better than from other writers. A very engaging 600 page read.
Paolo Giordano - The human body. If his name wasn’t on the cover I wouldn’t have guessed that this was the same writer as “the solitude of prime numbers’. Maybe not as intense as his debut but still another very good novel. Paolo is definitely a huge talent. Highly recommended!
Cheryl Strayed – Wild. This one is hyped a lot in the media but for me it didn’t live up to the hype. I am a fanatic hiker and I read it during a multiple day hike so this should have been the right setting. However, I didn’t think it was very credible. This is probably a typical womens book. Men should avoid.
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