23 Oct 09 - 24 Nov 09 - Existential crime thriller?  Social science fiction?  Not quite sure, but City & The City was a tough(ish) book for me to plow through because I couldn't lock in on the why of the whole dual/intermingled city/aparthied thing.  Maybe that was Mieville's point.  In any case, a challenging read, but well-paced.

5 November 2009 -

This is the second book I've read by Laxness.  Independent People was the first.  I plan on reading Independent People again in 2010.

10 Sept 09 - 31 Dec 09  Still working on it.

20 October 09 - 

October 1 - October 31, 2009

1 Sept 09 - 17 Sept 09

21 June 09 - 22 September 09

20 June 09 - 27 June 09

1 June 09 - 6 June 09

Saw the movie.  Then read the book.  Like many of the reviews of the movie, I found the movie duplicated the book shot for shot.  An ultimately redeeming ending.

1 April 09 - 18 April 09

1 Jan 09 - 10 April 09

This was actually the second attempt.  I'd first tried two years ago, got to page 300 and ran short on patience.  

20 Feb 09 - ; 1 June 09 -  Started and restarted several times.

1 Jan 2009 - 20 Jan 2009

RECOMMENDED - Completely amazing for any number of reasons, not the least of which was the fact that Wao is written as the anti-hero and as such, he's not altogether lovable.  Instead, he's human, which means I moved back and forth between liking him and being totally exasperated with him.  

20 January 2009 - 3 Feb 09

RECOMMENDED - I tore through this novel of Cory Doctorow's at top speed.  Read this and remember what it was like to be 16 and on fire with conviction that your cause is just..