Even Amber enjoyed Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
It’s time once again for It’s Monday, What Are You Reading, the group blog sponsored by J. Kaye’s Book Blog.
My reading has completely slacked off of late. I’ve been spending too much time doing other things like wrapping presents, buying presents, preparing for the coming holiday and even, occasionally, working.
I read one whole book over the past week, though it was a good one, and am presently taking forever to get through a short novel. This week I read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow and am about halfway through Timoelon Vieta, Please Come Home by Dan Rhodes.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
It’s hard to say what sort of book this is exactly. Magic realism is probably the best description for it, but even for a magic realism novel, it is pretty different. The main character, who is mostly called Alan, has a washing machine for a mother and a mountain for a father, and yet somehow he is a more or less normal human being minus a belly button. As the novel opens he is a grown man restoring an older home and settling down to a sort of semi-retirement, but then a host of different things occur to guarantee he will spend very little time retiring. Through flashbacks we learn more about his curious childhood. I’ve always enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s books before, and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town was no exception, though it certainly was the strangest of his books I have read to date.
I kind of doubt I am going to get a whole lot of reading done this week, as it looks like it is going to be another busy week. So, I will hold off on listing what I plan to get to next.
What about you? What are you reading this week?
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It seems to me that you are not the only whose reading has slowed down a bit. I am seeing that thought/comment being posted a lot. I know it is true for me. I am even having a hard time choosing which book I want to read.
Hope you have a great week.
If I didn’t have reviews due at another blog and read-alongs, I’d have been tempted to place my focus on other things. It’s been insane here.
I think we might have to wait until 2010 before our reading schedule gets back to normal.
Thanks, Deanna. I feel it will pick up after the holidays, especially since I am hoping Santa will bring me some good books!
Well, that makes me feel a bit better!