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hmpfis that, after losing my great job with the German National Library this February, which ironically prevented me from reading much (well, from reading novels, anyway - it did* allow me to read more than 300 comics in the two years that I worked there. *g*), I have started to read prodigiously again. Well, relatively prodigiously, anway - interrupted by the near-nervous-breakdown a while ago, of course. So, just because for some unfathomable reason I never seem to write about reading here, here's what I've read in the last two or so months:
Karel Capek: Der Krieg mit den Molchen
Walter Moers: Ensel und Krete
Paul Auster: Ghosts
Paul Auster: The Locked Room
Gene Wolfe: Castle of Days
Iain Sinclair: London Orbital
Gert Loschütz: Dunkle Gesellschaft
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
Michael Marshall Smith: Only Forward
Rosemary Sutcliff: The Silver Branch
Most of these were interesting/pleasant experiences. The Loschütz didn't quite work for me, though (which is okay, as I found this book in the street *g*). I particularly recommend the Eyre Affair and Only Forward; those were two of the more insane, mind-boggling reads I've had in recent years. *g* London Orbital is brilliant, too - not an easy read, but fascinating if, like me, you're interested in the strange, neither city nor countryside places on the margins of big cities. And the Sutcliff I actually read years ago in German, and have been meaning to buy in English for years, which I finally did, recently, to reward myself for finishing my papers. I also bought the next in the series, The Lantern Bearers. (I already had The Eagle of the Ninth.)
Currently I'm reading mostly non-fiction:
Brian Aldiss: Trillion Year Spree
Andre Leroi-Gourhan: Hand und Wort
Herbert Marcuse: One-dimensional Man (rereading)
Karel Capek: Der Krieg mit den Molchen
Walter Moers: Ensel und Krete
Paul Auster: Ghosts
Paul Auster: The Locked Room
Gene Wolfe: Castle of Days
Iain Sinclair: London Orbital
Gert Loschütz: Dunkle Gesellschaft
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
Michael Marshall Smith: Only Forward
Rosemary Sutcliff: The Silver Branch
Most of these were interesting/pleasant experiences. The Loschütz didn't quite work for me, though (which is okay, as I found this book in the street *g*). I particularly recommend the Eyre Affair and Only Forward; those were two of the more insane, mind-boggling reads I've had in recent years. *g* London Orbital is brilliant, too - not an easy read, but fascinating if, like me, you're interested in the strange, neither city nor countryside places on the margins of big cities. And the Sutcliff I actually read years ago in German, and have been meaning to buy in English for years, which I finally did, recently, to reward myself for finishing my papers. I also bought the next in the series, The Lantern Bearers. (I already had The Eagle of the Ninth.)
Currently I'm reading mostly non-fiction:
Brian Aldiss: Trillion Year Spree
Andre Leroi-Gourhan: Hand und Wort
Herbert Marcuse: One-dimensional Man (rereading)
