Books
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler - If you want a book written by Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket that features a ton of incest and a golem, this is the book for you. After reading it though, I realized that I didn’t want to read a book like that.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (reread) - I read this again, but I haven’t seen the movie yet.
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson - This was my favorite book this month.
Champagne for One, Before Midnight, Not Quite Dead Enough, Three For the Chair, The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout (All reread) - I love Archie Goodwin.
Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alastair McCall - Nice, I can see why people find this series so appealing.
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami -A novel about a runaway schoolboy, a mentally damaged old man who talks to cats, and the strange things that happen in past and present Japan.
Graphic Novels and Manga
Bleach #2
Saiyuki #4, #5
Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden #2
Tramps Like Us #7
Land of the Blindfolded #4, #5
Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD
Eden
Have you read Handler’s The Basic Eight? I enjoyed that one, which is about media frenzy and teenaged jadedness but what I’ve seen so far about Shut Your Mouth didn’t sound so interesting.
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Would you recommend Kafka on the Shore to someone who really enjoyed The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but found everything else he’s sampled of Murakami (Wild Sheep Chase, Hard Boiled Wonderland) to be comparatively underwhelming?
I haven’t read The Basic Eight, but maybe I’ll try it.
I’m not sure - I tend to like Murakami in general. I do think that the characters in Kafka on the Shore were more fully realized than some of the characters that appear in his novels.
Handler’s title isn’t quite so blunt — it’s Watch Your mouth. And thanks for the warning, I’d been considering getting this one, but probably won’t.
Whoops, thanks for catching that. I kept reading that book thinking of passages that deserved to be nominated for the bad sex award.
You’re welcome. It became obvious when I did an Amazon search on the book.
And he’s such a brilliant writer when it comes to those poor, orphaned Baudelaires and their unspeakable trials and tribulations! Well, perhaps he’s brilliant in Watch Your Mouth, too, but it just sounds like such uncomfortable reading.