Books Again

So, all the books I’ve finished since last book post…

The Time Traveller’s Wife: thoroughly adorable and sad. Nothing brilliant but it was sweet and well written, and it was long!  I kept coming back to it whenever I had a second free. And really, any book about time travel is instantly pretty awesome.

Snuff: I was disappointed to be honest but I think I may like it better on a second read. Everything felt heavy handed and it was impossibly short.  I loved the premise but I wasn’t thrilled about how Palanuik went about it. It was like he lost any subtlety he  possessed in laying out the story.

Rant: I read Rant to console myself after Snuff failed me. It worked wonderfully. I had actually started it in June and put it down because I wasn’t getting into it.  This time around I didn’t want to put it down at the end. Ahhhhhhh. No, I was really surprised how much I liked it. I’ve also stopped reading Palanuik expecting his twists to surprise me which I think helped.

Choke: More Palanuik! Read this before Snuff and Rant. Loved it, sent me into a small moral crisis and everything. This is why I read Palaniuk.

Lolita: OK, so I’m still reading Lolita. The prose is so gorgeous I want to die and it lulls me into the most beautiful state of complete oblivion that I really can’t read it everyday. It’s like a desert overdose.   Also I hatehatehatehatehate the cover of my copy and I can’t stand looking at it. It’s tucked in my work desk drawer for when I feel up to it.

House of Leaves: I’ve started it! Book Thief boy also recommended it awhile ago after finding out I was reading Lolita. While I still feel vague on the connection I’m in love with this book. Initially I was excited because of the layout and typography. I’m a sucker for inventive narrative structure. I finally bought it after seeing it recommended to someone online who had nightmares after reading Haunted(also a Palanuik ). Haunted was the first Palanuik book I read and I would not read it before bed after trying to do so a few times and getting creeped out(but no nightmares tyvm), eventually I had to move it to a spot where I couldn’t see it while in bed. Behold my wimpiness! Well, I love a dare, which was how the recommendation was phrased, and it picked it up about 48 hours later. The book itself is the massive “remastered full-color edition”.  It’s weighing my purse down so badly I’m going to get marks but I don’t care. I’m 50 pages in and I’m in love.

la la la I’m going to go read more!