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Herself got me the paper version for christmas and I haven't cracked the cover on it yet and I really should. The chapter on SY in Our Band Could Be Your Life was really good.

Currently listening to Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen. About mid way through. Been trying to "decolonise" my habits a bit so I've made a deliberate choice to read/listen to more originally not in English novels, more women etc. Aside from a couple of Camus novels I've never read anything by...

I listened to it. Enjoyed it.

Listening to Miki Berenyi from Lush's autobiography. Haven't got to the "was the bass player from dodgey a shithead" part I bought it for yet.

3 or 4 chapters into a wild sheep chase by Murakami (my first by him). Enjoying the economy of language, very abrupt in its descriptiveness, reminds me of the one Hemmingway book I've read. Recently finished Beloved by Toni Morrison, which was very good.

Some of the material hasn't aged well. I was a big fan as well.

That's the one.

Finished Cat's Cradle on audiobook this week. Have loved all the Vonnegut I've ever rad but this one took a while to get in to. He thought it was his best novel.

I read the first one and it was a perfectly fine mystery/thriller but I felt in no way compelled to read any of the others. Whoever did the translation didn't do a great job. There was a lot of references to things that might be second nature to Swedes but for an anglophone they could have...

Not wanting anything particularly challenging I read "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" last week. It's an okay crime novel but it's quite a poor translation from the Swedish I think, many terms that I think would be second nature to Swedes were directly translated and there were a couple of...

Is that the one about the tiny club in the mountain that made it up to Serie B?

I've been finding Tropic Of Cancer slow going so I bought The Damned United last night.

Who has read more books than Art Garfunkel? http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library.html On the that note. What's the word for someone who has read all the books ever written? Obviously there hasn't been one of those since the 15th century or so a the latest but there is an actual word for it.

you use spoiler tags

Finished this today, I was talking to someone about it last night and she said that I'd either find the ending to be hugely uplifting or a continuation of the unrelenting bleakness that goes through the whole book. I'm in the latter camp. Were it not for the brilliance of the prose it'd have...

Read a couple of hundred pages of the road today. Bleak.

Only a few interviews in. I read one last night which he did for a UK magazine after Nighthawks at the diner came out and most of his answers were snippits from the then unrecorded, at the time being written, small change.

Reading Innocent When You Dream, a collection of Tom Waits interviews.

The final hundred or so pages about about his love for Joy Division and also includes an open letter to Kevin Shields but mainly they're about his all encompassing and borderline obsessional devotion to Guided By Voices. Enjoyed it.