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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Posted in Read in 2008
Tagged farrar straus and giroux, recommended, rivka galchen, usa
Long for the Day
At the Globe and Mail, T. F. Rigelhof reviews Rawi Hage’s Cockroach.
[This] is an angry and agnostic book that will seriously annoy those unmoved and unshaken Bushites to the south, Harperites to the west and Péquistes in Hage’s hometown, who have yet to “realize that we are all gatherers and wanderers, ever bound to cross each other’s paths, and that these paths belong to us all.” And whom will it delight? The July issue of New Scientist shows that readers of narrative fiction score higher on tests of empathy and social acumen than those who don’t.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, canada, globe and mail, rawi hage, tf rigelhof
No Immediate Monetary Reward
The Guardian has a gallery of books with odd titles.
Posted in Reading
Tagged diagram prize, guardian, publishing, uk
Worrying About the Future
Reiji Yoshida of The Japan Times writes of the shrinking domestic publishing industry.
According to an annual survey by the Yomiuri Shimbun, 52 percent of 1,812 adult respondents said last October they did not read a book in the previous month, 14 points above the figure 20 years earlier.
The percentage of people who read one to three books a month had exceeded those who read none until the early 1990s. But the latter group has exceeded the former in number since the late 1990s, according to the survey.
Posted in Reading
Tagged japan, japan times, publishing, reiji yoshida
Double Shot
On National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Alan Cheuse reviews Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain and Roma Tearne’s Mosquito.
Posted in Reading
Tagged alan cheuse, book review, malaysia, npr, roma tearne, sri lanka, tan twan eng, usa, war
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
Recommended with reservations.
Posted in Read in 2008
Tagged china, nan a talese, recommended with reservations, translation, xiaolu guo
Meta Misadventures
At the New York Times, Richard Eder reviews Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, new york times, paul auster, richard eder, usa