Monthly Archives: November 2015

Q3/15 Reading List

Lionel Davidson: Kolymsky Heights. Strong.
Mike Hawthorne: Hell of a Journey. DNF
Ivan Vladislavic: Double Negative. Solid.
Jens Mühling. Mein russisches Abenteuer. Naja.
Tim Moore: French Revolutions. Never boring.
Julia Pierpont: Among the Ten Thousand Things. Solid stuff.
Julian Barnes: Keeping an Eye Open. Not for me. DNF.
Joseph O’Neill: The Dog. Loved it.
William Boyd: Sweet Caress. Just great.
Daniel Friebe: Eddy Merckx. Solidly written but the mystery remains.
Martin Suter: Montecristo. Schwach. DNF.
Jonathan Franzen: Purity. Very satisfying.
Jonas Jonasson: Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg. Sehr unterhaltsam.
John Banville: The Blue Guitar. Exquisite.
Karl-Ove Knausgård: Träumen. Stark.
Klaus Modick. Klack. Gut genug.
Salman Rushdie: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. What a wonderful fairytale.

Q2/15 Reading List

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant. Very disappointing.
 
Michael Barry: Shadows on the Road. Interesting enough.
 
Lacey Noonan: A Gronking to Remember. Beyond belief.
 
Kazuo Ishiguro: Nocturnes. Excellent. 
 
Modiano: Gräser der Nacht.  Schwierig schwierig.
 
Bryson: Small Island.Perfect, never gets old.
 
Zia Haider Rahman: In the Light of What We Know. Outstanding. 
 
Ned Boulting: 101 Damnations. Good not great
 
Ed Catmull: Creativity Inc. Pretty good.
 
Klaus Modick: Konzert ohne Dichter. Sehr solide. 
 
Gaimon: Pro Cycling on $10 a Day. Fun read, good writer.