Review Round-Up

Some reviews you have missed:

And Round 1 of the Tournament of Books’ Semi-Finals pits Half Of A Yellow Sun against The Road (another post-apocalyptic book!)

  • By Beth (The Toronto One), March 26, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

    Your blog is feeding my addiction. I only have two of these books. Must now check out the others.

  • By DJ Cayenne, March 26, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

    What do you have? I only have Jamestown in hand and a copy of The Raw Shark Texts on its way.

  • By Shaft, March 26, 2007 @ 1:08 pm

    Juggernaut Dallas (my action hero name) here. Although with a handle like “Shaft”, it’s tough to switch.

    Anyway, I’ve only got one of the books mentioned (“Then We Came to the End”), which I’m taking with me on a trip to [drumroll] Europe later this week. I’m looking forward to it, given that I work as an advertising attorney and interface with ad agency people every day (and they’re the subjects of the book). I’ll start it as soon as I finish “Dreaming of Gwen Stefani” and “Small Town Punk”, my two trophies from winning the music/literature linking contest.

    Also, you are safe to infer from the foregoing that I’ve bailed on “1984″, the book that I’m apparently 55% like. I started it, but as I got going, having read it before, I wasn’t particularly re-engaged by it this time. Maybe it’s just that the concepts presented aren’t really that groundbreaking in this day and age. Plus, I read the book jacket which discussed how riveting the book is, right down to “the last four words”. So I immediately looked at them to remind myself of what they were, and that was pretty much the ultimate spoiler.

  • By Beth (The Toronto One), March 27, 2007 @ 8:45 am

    I have the Jane Smiley and Ian McEwan books on my Amazon.CA wish list. (I shouldn’t have said I actually have them yet.)
    I just received some books from Amazon and recently paid a visit to my local used book store.
    My pile is huge. I have to wait at least a few weeks (??) before ordering again. (Maybe.)

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