It is difficult to capture the theme of this book as there is none. Murakami writes a journal while training for a marathon. In this process he talks about life as a novelist, life as a runner and life as a person who is living it. Sometimes he takes you running. You are there alongside him when he runs mile after mile next to rivers while being passed by college runners and 70 year old ladies. He will build you up on the run, let […]
Half of a Yellow Sun
Admitted, I read this book solely based on the author’s brilliant TED talk “The Danger of a Single Story”. I did very little research on which of her books to read and ended up with this one because I liked the title and the cover. This book seemed like it was written for me. I do not know much of Africa and I am not one to be touched by stranger’s death on the news. Part of it is due to not being sentimental as […]
Ultimate Man’s Man Fight Manliness Man.
Right off the bat; this book is not for the squeamish. Their is no gender equality or respect in this book, there is hardly even any respect exept for those who fight and those who do it well. It is promoted as a guide of “must-knows” if one wants to become a professional MMA-fighter, but let’s face it; if that’s actually want you wanted to do you wouldn’t need to read Griffin’s book about it. So although the book does end with a series of […]
On love, loss, giving. On Beauty.
On Beauty follows the intricacy of love bound up on two more or less rivalling families. Howard Belsey and Monty Kipp are both art professors duelling on the interpretations of Rembrandt paintings. Howards oldest son interns with Monty Kipps and proposes to their daughter Victoria who turns him down. Meanwhile Howard has had an affair and the relationship to his wife Kiki is on the mend. A year later the Kipps family moves to Wellington leaving Howard and Monty at the same university. The lives […]
Everything happens in this book: Snow Crash
Hiro Protagonist (yeah, that’s his name) is a pizza deliverer in an unspecified future. Pizza delivery is run by the mafia and is super important. All pizzas must be delivered within 30 minutes or huge, major consequences happen. Long story short he crashes in a pool and meets Y.T a spunky skate-board-car-surfer. She delivers the pizza and thus befriends the mafia. And then Hiro is also a hacker and there is a huge virtual world called the metaverse. And in this metaverse there is a […]
Batman; the long Halloween (it’s because they kill people)
A murder on halloween kicks off a year of murders in the mafia family. It is a year where almost all well known batman characters are instantiated; the killings continue every subsequent holiday. Batman is trying to catch the killer, but as in all the best batman-stories he is really just the path that the mystery walks upon. The story is well drawn, and incredibly well crafted. Loeb and Sale play with story telling techniques brilliantly executing some of the best themes throughout Batman; the […]