Now #reading … (experiencing?)

Posted on February 9, 2013 12:07 pm by Patti Niehoff

Silent History

This is not just a book — audio and pictures as well. I have only just downloaded it, so am still exploring.

It is a medical thriller / science fiction story that takes place thirty or so years in the future, and documents a growing number of young children who are born starting around 2011 and grow up never speaking.

Looks good so far.

New to the reading list

Posted on January 1, 2013 11:03 pm by Patti Niehoff

John Green reads The Fault in our Stars (Photo credit: Genevieve719)

For the overcrowded-as-it-is reading list:

The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers

It seems my first instinct when I notice that I have too much to read is to add more to the load.

WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN

Posted on September 18, 2012 9:23 pm by Patti Niehoff

Yes, I am reading it again: Infinite Jest. There are so many people and things in it that the sheer density of stuff has enough mass to affect my intellectual gravity field.

There are also so many favorite quotes that I’m planning on wearing out one whole yellow pencil by the time that I reach the end of the book.

Infinite Jest tour of Boston (kottke.org)

#ReadingNow: #1Q84 by Haruki #Murakami

Posted on October 28, 2011 11:39 am by Patti Niehoff

Currently vying for space in front of my eyes is 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I hope, before I finish it, to know how to pronounce the title properly. I wish I knew Japanese…

Image by 铁蛋骑士 via Flickr

Moments after the butterfly left, Murakami came down the stairs and sat, quietly, at his dining-room table. I told him I had just seen the weirdest butterfly I had ever seen in my entire life. He took a drink from his plastic water bottle, then looked up at me. “There are many butterflies in Japan,” he said. “It is not strange to see a butterfly.”