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Read in October 2009

I can't believe that we're heading into the last two months of the year already. Has it been ten months since I've been here? Where did all that time go? Oh right, I was doing some reading (of course, not reading like some other people have been reading. I've only just hit 200 books). Anyway, on this last day of October, I have no reading plans, as it's the husband's birthday and it's off to make a pandan cake! Happy birthday my love!

The Winter Vault - Anne Michaels
Brooklyn - Coim Toibin
The Children of Men - PD James
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson
Something Borrowed - Emily Griffin
Red Sorghum - Mo Yan
The Ghost in Love - Jonathan Carroll
Love Begins in Winter - Simon van Booy
Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
How The Soldier Repairs the Gramophone - Sasa Stanisic
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
Classics of the Macabre - Daphne Du Maurier
Shopgirl - Steve Martin
I Do Not Come To You By Chance - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Reif Larsen
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

Non-fiction (3)
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
The Afterlife - Donald Antrim
The Best American Essays of the Century - Joyce Carol Oates (Ed)

Graphic Novels (6)
Sandman: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
Sandman: Dream Country Neil Gaiman
Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days - Brian K Vaughn
Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape - Bill Willingham
Jack of Fables: Jack of Hearts - Bill Willingham

Total: 26
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Read: Classics of the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier Oh why oh why did it take me so long to read Daphne du Maurier? I only picked up Rebecca earlier this year. I think I always had this fear that it would be like my experience of reading Wuthering Heights when I was a teenager (it was a gift and I felt that I needed to read it. I didn't like it. Mostly because I wasn't quite ready to read it. I think I ought to go pick up Wuthering Heights again. I might be more ready now!). And for some reason I'd always associated Rebecca with that experience. But I took the plunge and Rebecca was such a gorgeous, completely absorbing book.

And then, somehow, it took me several more months to pick up another du Maurier! And this one was surprising. And good. And a bit creepy. But very entertaining.

Included in this collection are Don't Look Now, The Apple Tree, The Blue Lenses, The Birds, The Apple Tree, The Alibi and Not After Midnight. My favorites were The Birds and Don't Look Now. I have yet to watch the film version of The Birds, and now am quite curious to see how it was done because it was not what I expected (random attacks by birds) but more like an all-out, highly organised war. Don't Look Now is set in Venice and follows a couple who are grieving over the death of their young child. They meet two elderly women, one of them is psychic and has a warning from their dead daughter.

I also loved the silly awkwardness of The Blue Lenses, in which a woman emerges from an operation to restore her sight and begins to see people for who they truly are. I think that du Maurier's writing really shone in The Apple Tree, for she managed to bring the creepiness out of an apple tree. An apple tree, creepy? Really? That's du Maurier!

Go read this collection, or any of her other collections of short stories! I know I'll be heading for the 'D' shelf on my next library visit.

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Read: Jack of Fables by Matthew Sturges and Bill Willingham I've been enjoying the Fables series but my reading has currently been stalled at the fourth book, March of the Wooden Soldiers, as the next installment, The Mean Seasons has apparently been forgotten by some library user - the online catalogue says it's been due back since mid-September!

So I gave another graphic novel a try. I picked up Ex Machina: First Hundred Days by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris and Tom Feister. And I wasn't quite convinced that this was the graphic novel for me.

The husband (he's been reading Fables too) and I even hit the Barnes & Noble to see if they had a copy of The Mean Seasons. But no luck there either! And we ended up reading Serenity: Those Left Behind, which bridges the gap between the Firefly series and the Serenity film.

So when I hit the library this week, I picked up Jack of Fables, which stars Jack (of And The Beanstalk fame), and although I was initially doubtful (Jack isn't exactly my favorite of Fables characters), ended up enjoying the first two installments.

In The (Nearly) Great Escape, Jack is caught and imprisoned in a community where Fables go to be forgotten by the Mundies (or Mundanes, i.e. us). The best part of this was meeting fables that were not in the main Fables series, such as Humpty Dumpty, Mother Goose, and the Turtle and the Hare. Jack of Hearts had two different story arcs. In the first, Jack tells of his romp as Jack Frost. In the second, Jack heads to Las Vegas for some fun (and of course, gets into some trouble).

The thing about Jack is that this series doesn't have that whole entourage of great characters (Snow White! Rose Red! Bigby!) that the Fables series does. It's been a good ride so far, and I'm going to pick up more of the Jack books, but I'll be looking wistfully at the rest of the Fables books, waiting for Mean Seasons to be back in stock.
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Jack of Fables 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape

Jack of Fables Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts Ex Machina: First Hundred Days

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Read: Shopgirl by Steve Martin 

In most cases, books are so much better than their film versions. This one, I reckon, is the exception to that rule.

I quite enjoyed the movie, although maybe it was because of the presence of Jason Schwartzman and the cameo by Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters principal Mark Kozelek. So I was expecting to enjoy the book. And it was... well, I'd recommend you watch the movie instead.

The book had some awkward phrasings and uncomfortable moments. Here's one I both chuckled and cringed over: "Her nipples are the color of bubble gum, and the silicone makes them resilient enough to chew like bubble gum". Erm, eew... yet haha, who would've thought of writing that?

That was rather unfortunate, as Martin does seem quite perceptive about relationships, especially the initial stages of courtship - between Mirabelle and the smooth, gentlemanly Ray, as well as Mirabelle and the very offbeat, unsavvy Jeremy.

Yet it's those awkward moments that continue to stick in my mind, like that gum you have to scrape off your shoe with a stick.

Shopgirl: A Novella
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Library Loot (21 October 2009) A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Need to read more Ishiguro! Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard - Matthew Sturges and Bill Willingham In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin
Recently shortlisted for the National Book Awards

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What I Read Last Week (19 October 2009)

Red Sorghum: A Novel of China - Mo Yan (source: library)

A challenging but entirely fulfilling and compelling read of a village fighting against the Japanese invasion of China. But it is more than a gory war story, this is the tale of a family and how it became one.

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (source: Goodreads first reads giveaway)
How I adored this book! Why did it take me so long to read it (it's been on my shelves since... March?) It was such a fun read. But also quite quite disturbing (don't read it before you have to enter a hospital!). But yes, do go read this one, especially, I reckon, if you like Scrubs.

A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (source: library)
I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. Perhaps it was the familiar territory - a large part of the book was set in Malaysia during the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation. And that it was a sort of long-distance romance of a different kind between two very strong, very brave characters.
 - Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Tom Feister (source: library)
The weird thing about this graphic novel is that I liked every character except the main one. Ex Machina is quite a different take on the superhero style, being more real-life (he's the Mayor of New York and his power is the ability to talk to/command machines). I'm not sure if I will continue with the series. But that's mostly because my library doesn't have the other books in the series!

The Uncommon Reader: A Novella - Alan Bennett
In a Summer Season - Elizabeth Taylor
The Best American Essays of the Century - Joyce Carol Oates (editor)

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Friday Finds (17 October 2009) Here's what I added to my list of books I'd like to read this week. My Abandonment by Peter Rock (via Three Guys One Book) The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya (via The Mookse and The Gripes)

Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura. In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around her—but who’s that in the mirror? Laura Rivera can’t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moya’s relentless, obsessive narrator—female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable—paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse. Bleak History by John Shirley (via The OLM Blog) Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books (via The Elegant Variation)

An inspiring cross-section of notable libraries, this beautiful book celebrates the arts of reading and collecting.

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Library Loot (14 October 2009) 

I wanted to make the trek to the library yesterday, but the big storm hit and it rained and rained all day. Everyone probably had the same library withdrawal - the carpark was pretty full and I was actually No. 4 in the check-out queue for once (I've never had more than one person ahead of me before). Sounds like a good collection!

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America"s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience.
From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr."s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going."
Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir,
T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard. - Nevil Shute
I kept thinking that I've read this before, but apparently not! Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre - Daphne du Maurier
I've only ever read one other du Maurier (Rebecca) and am looking forward to reading more.

This sumptuous volume celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the best-known and most-loved storytellers in the English language today, Daphne du Maurier.
Here are six masterpieces of the imagination, illustrated in glowing color by prize-winning artist, Michael Foreman.
Don't Look Now, a classic story of the macabre, opens the collection, followed by The Apple Tree, The Blue Lenses, The Birds, The Alibi and Not After Midnight.
These dramatic and compelling stories, together with their stunning illustrations, make a perfect gift to be treasured for a lifetime. The Afterlife: A Memoir - Donald Antrim

In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in The New Yorker and were anthologized in Best American Essays, Antrim explored his intense and complicated relationships with his mother, Louanne, an artist, teacher, and ferociously destabilizing alcoholic; his gentle grandfather, who lived in the mountains of North Carolina and who always hoped to save his daughter from herself; and his father, who married his mother twice.

The Afterlife is an elliptical, sometimes tender, sometimes blackly hilarious portrait of a family--faulty, cracked, enraging--and of a man struggling to learn the nature of his origins. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet - Reif Larsen
A bit hesitant about picking this up, but we'll see how it goes. - Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Tom Feister
With my next installment of Fables still loitering around some other borrower's house, I had to get my graphic novel fix with something new. Sounds interesting!

Spin City and The West Wing meet Batman in this gripping and satirical superhero graphic novel by the acclaimed writer of Y - The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan. After a close encounter with alien technology, civil engineer Mitchell Hundred finds he can interface with technology of every kind. He sets himself up as erstwhile superhero, The Machine, but after doing more harm than good, Hundred ends up as mayor of New York! Now he has to contend with controversial artwork, a recalcitrant police chief and a series of strange murders that could bring the city to its knees! The first in an all-new series from Titan, Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days is brimming with political intrigue, civic chaos and superheroic shenanigans!

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What I Read Last Week

I finished reading:
The Children of Men by P.D. James (review) (source: library)

The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman (source: library)
The Sandman Library 3: Dream Country The Sandman series does get better. I especially enjoyed volume 3, which was a bit different from the first two books, as it is a series of four short stories.

The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll (source: library)
Hmm...not exactly what I was expecting. But still, it was completely enjoyable, and incredibly imaginative. by Robert Louis Stevenson (source: library)
Ok so I didn't quite finish all the 'Other Stories' as the book was due back at the library, but I did manage to read most of the stories, including the title one. And that really surprised me - it was far more psychological than I'd thought.

I'm currently reading:
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China by Mo Yan (source: library)
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (source: Goodreads first reads giveaway)
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